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The Mission:

During the Cassini mission, the spacecraft spent a tremendous amount of time studying the rings of Saturn. Starting in 2012, Cassini surveys both sides of the equatorial plane. In later years of the mission, Cassini dropped between the rings 22 times to gather data. We learned the rings were not as old as we originally thought. The massive rings are mostly ice and rock in orbit around Saturn. They stretch 170,000 miles but are only about as thick as a three-story building, with some exceptions near the ends, beautiful ice particle mountains rising here and there. Certainly, Saturn’s Rings are one of the most wondrous objects in our solar system.

The Music:

There is real joy in imagining seeing firsthand the rings of Saturn. Massive shimmering fields of ice glistening across a black void like a billion diamonds in the distant sun. At a distance so uniformly, elegant they look as if they had been painted by an artist but as we fall toward, we see so much in motion. Around 1:36 in the music you hear a dip into silence as we fall between a gap in the rings. A chaotic sound element represents the sight of the rocks and ice that pass by that could have easily ripped Cassini apart and then a magnificent finale as we see the sun backlight the rings of Saturn as no one has before.


Notable sounds from the Arturia Matrix 12, Pigments 2, and Native Instruments Massive X

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from Cassini: A Musical Tribute, released July 4, 2021

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Jesse James Allen Orlando, Florida

Jesse James Allen is a 9-time internationally award-winning experiential media artist and composer.  

At heart, he is a sound designer and synthesist. His affinity for classical styles and choral music came from his early years recording for the prestigious Denver Center for the Performing Arts and National Theater Conservatory.

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