Songs for solitude and progress. Mostly digital.

I am an amateur digital musician. “Iridium Point” (rather than “Iridium Platinum”, which would be too expensive) is the name of the act; in various URLs I keep scandium in there for the pun, “SciRpt”. Science is Repeatable. It could also stand for, “Scientists play my songs on repeat.”

The name showed up serendipitously in 2014. On a bus to visit my grandparents in China, I was tethering my iPod to my dad’s Blackberry when it asked for a hotspot password, and “iridium point” surfaced out of nowhere. I later learned it’s a calligraphy term for the tip of a pen. The shorthand “IrPt” works on a few levels: Ir and Pt sit next to each other on the periodic table, both have associations with massively popular music, and you can read it as “I repeat.”

Where two years are given below, the piece was written once and returned to later. That gap is the method, not a typo.


Three minutes, three moods


Science

Written for missions, instruments and people who look up.

In Our Obscurity cover art
2023 – In Our Obscurity (for Carl Sagan)
Imagine Stars cover art
2024 – Imagine Stars (farewell, Auckland Physics)
Shenzhou 5 cover art
2023 – Shenzhou 5
Apollo 11 cover art
2019 – Apollo 11, Half a Century Later
Space Elevator cover art
2023 – Space Elevator
Curiosity cover art
2022 / 2023 – Curiosity
Not Even Light cover art
2019 / 2021 – Not Even Light

Journeys / Growth / Love

Vienna cover art
2024 – Vienna
Afar cover art
2014 / 2024 – Afar
Urban Nights cover art
2014 / 2020 – Urban Nights

Prime

A numbered series, released one prime at a time.

Two cover art
Two
Five cover art
Five

Companion booklets

Most releases come with a written companion: what the piece is about, how it was built, and what was going on at the time.

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