As if there was a fanbase — never the point, not yet — I would like to discuss the new framework of my musical efforts and forecast some upcoming tracks.
To me working on Iridium Point has become akin to a power-law random walk. Big jumps with numerous small ones in all directions. Insects use this to effectively explore the cold night air. I prioritise the physics, the debugging and the crying and all, while looping the drafts as part of my ambient music, making changes every couple days. I might get somewhere. Also, I make this list to suggest that should I have some time to do music, I will work on one of the following.
I also wish to formally disclose that since late 2025 I have explored the AI generative tools offered by Suno Pro. I have used it to remix and extend my own melodies and arrangements, and learn from its outputs, sometimes in awe.
This practice remains in line with the overarching FWPhys Generative Arts Ethics Statement. Nothing you hear that is signed off with the name Iridium Point will ever be AI generated. I learn from a teacher that reacts to and supports my ideas, and at most recreate some algorithm suggested elements in Logic Pro.
Iridium Point No. 3
Genre: Techno, Dance
Dedicated to P. W. Anderson and initially titled “More Is Different”. It is quite overdue at this point if I stick to the story that Prime tracks denote years since my arrival in Berkeley (that would mean Three should have come out in 2020). Every year I aim for a late March release window but at this point, eh.
An early version could be heard in my 2025 Happy New Year Video.
Sail Tonight
Genre: Sonata
2016 project that dragged on: I couldn’t handle or write down what was in my mind. But I remembered it.
The Meandering Eons
Genre: Experimental Electronic
The other half of The Vacuous Megaparsecs (2023, 2025). About explorations of my emotion and about time. Originally composed in 2015. Still in early development.
Iridium Point No. 13
Genre: Ambient Piano
“Farout”. This was an emotional piano improvisation written in the hazy Auckland morning when I read that JWST reported the first Little Red Dot (LRD) — then just called z11 galaxies — before I knew how big a deal it might turn out to physicist career (no article here as I still doubt if there exists a thing such as ‘my career’).
For this I am ignoring the 2030 release target and to be published ASAP. The cover art is a photograph of the 13 billiard ball at Perimeter Institute.
I hold special sentiments to that colourful wall. But it’s something I need to leave behind too.
Subnautical Reverie / For Stephen Hillenburg
Genre: Children’s Music, Orchestral
Earlier simply a chord written for PyUltralight’s ending chime, and even more earlier one of the pen-and-paper music drafts written for a marine biology friend. It will be short but hopefully strike a chord.
Cold Spring
Genre: Chinese Fusion, Orchestral, Vocal
Not to be confused by the somehow lowly rated Severance episode. This is one of the first Iridium Point compositions that survived since 2014, being chronological peers with Reykjavik or the earlier Afar.
It will have lyrics. It will be properly recorded.
Gold – EP
Love songs that stayed past shelf life and missed their intended recipient(s). I am simply publishing to dump all the emotional baggages while ironically hoping some here plays during my wedding.
- Visible Light / Berkeley Physics Assignment Drop Box Rhapsody
- About Us (2016)
- Gold / At Moonrise (2018)
- Falling in Love with a Stranger at the Airport (tribute to the Sisyphus55 video of the same title)
- Europa (a dual of the published Enceladus)
- Vienna (Acoustic)
Cover art is the Pulsar section of the Voyager Golden Record (Creative Commons).
Yourong Frank Wang 