Sarth Calhoun

Projects

Conspiracies

Bands, tours, records, theater pieces, films, and machines.

Third Wall Studio

The animation studio I founded in May 2025. Animation with filmmakers and artists, mixing live action, animation and generative AI, with Burlap as the canvas. The 2026 shorts with Doron Lev, Jacob McCoy, Savas and Jonathan Arons.

Watching Shadows, still.
Burlap, infinite canvas for visual reference prompting.

Burlap

The native Mac app Third Wall builds and works in: an infinite canvas for visual creation and context management, connected to models from OpenAI, Google, Runway and ByteDance. The canvas under the 2026 shorts.

The Gralbum Collective

The group I founded to publish music and interactive art as apps, releasing work by Bora Yoon, Adam Matta, Leah Coloff and Moon Hooch.

Sarth Calhoun playing a laptop and a Continuum at the Gralbum launch.
Cover art of The Book of Sarth.

Book of Sarth

My first full-length solo release, 2012, built as an iPad app combining a graphic novel and a concept album.

One track, “Awakening (To Blacklist)”, has its own page.

Lulu

The 2011 album by Lou Reed and Metallica. Its songs began as the score Lou Reed and I wrote for Robert Wilson’s staging of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu plays at the Berliner Ensemble.

Its closing track, “Junior Dad”, has its own page.

On a television stage: Kirk Hammett, Sarth Calhoun, Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield.
Metal Machine Trio on stage: Sarth Calhoun at his laptops, Lou Reed seated with guitar, Ulrich Krieger on saxophone.

Metal Machine Trio

The improvising trio of Lou Reed, Ulrich Krieger and me, formed at REDCAT in Los Angeles in October 2008. Its live album The Creation of the Universe came out in 2009.

A later recording became The Creation of the Universe, ambisonic installation.

Yellow Pony

Two short European tours in 2009 with Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, billed The Yellow Pony and Other Songs and Stories. I played Continuum Fingerboard and resampled their voices live.

Yellow Pony on stage in Madrid: Laurie Anderson, Sarth Calhoun, Lou Reed.
Cover of Softly Questioning (Reprise).

Poughkeepsie

Joe Kelly’s 2018 short film. Its main theme is the melody of my “Softly Questioning,” from Reflections, Vol. 1.

Hidden Books, Hidden Stories

Lou Reed’s pavilion at the New York Photo Festival, May 2010, and its slideshow at St. Ann’s Warehouse. The festival’s upload names me.

Vivid LIVE 2010

The two week festival at the Sydney Opera House curated by Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. Metal Machine Trio played it, along with a fifty person noise band at the opening and about a dozen unplanned jams.

The Sydney Opera House lit for Vivid Sydney, May 2010.
Lou Reed on stage at Les Vieilles Charrues, Carhaix, 2011.

Lou Reed’s 2011 European tour

Lou Reed’s run through the European festival circuit in the summer of 2011, with an eight-piece band. I posted twice from the road.

Lou Reed’s song band

The touring group Lou Reed used for his song repertoire. I joined in 2008, playing Continuum Fingerboard and processing the other musicians live.

Sarth Calhoun performing at Lollapalooza with Lou Reed’s band.
Lou Reed’s band at the Highline Ballroom, New York, May 5, 2008.

Lou Reed spring 2008 U.S. tour

Lou Reed’s United States tour of April and May 2008, running through the Northeast and then south by bus as far as Memphis. It was my first tour with Reed.

Power and Serenity

Tai chi meditation music Lou Reed and I made together over four years, for Master Ren Guangyi’s DVD, on sale from July 2010. The first thing we ever worked on.

Lucibel Crater

The rock and electronic trio of Leah Coloff, Paul Chuffo and me. Its album The Family Album came out in 2008.

Lucibel Crater on stage: Sarth Calhoun, Leah Coloff, Paul Chuffo.
Cover of Suspension by Number 19.

Number19

The band I formed in Brooklyn in 1999 with Tony Diodore, Leah Coloff and Mark Righter. Its album Suspension came out in 2001.