“atom 15“ by Sleeping At Last

Lyrics: “words are water. i am the moon. i’ve grown tired of begging and begging the tides to move.“ Welcome to “atoms”: tiny pieces of music inspired by tiny and beautiful things! When I see something beautiful, I’ll film it, then write a short piece of new music for that moment. Tiny film scores, if you will. Basically, I want to musically follow Mary Oliver’s beautiful “instructions for living a life: pay attention. be astonished. tell about it.” Each “atom” song and video will be roughly 1 minute in length and will be released spontaneously. First as posts on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc. Shortly after, each “atom” will be widely available on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. In the same way that seeing something beautiful in the middle of my day feels kind of like an oasis, a tiny chance to catch my breath, the hope for “atoms” is to offer up that same meditative feeling in your Insta timeline or TikTok feed, or in the middle of your next doom scroll. Because a collection of real atoms is called a molecule, every 15 atoms that are released will be gathered into a “Molecule”! Proud to share that the first, “Molecule 1” is out now, feat. Atom 1-15! Eventually, as heaps of atoms are out in the world, I’ll do what i’m calling “Molecule Sessions”, in which I’ll choose a few atoms (perhaps with your help?!) and expand on them, transforming them into something new. I’m very excited about what these tiny pieces of music may become! “atom 15” is set to water and fish, filmed from below at the shedd aquarium in chicago. Listen to all of my “atoms“ here! Love, Ryan - Sleeping At Last