Transmission · Dream
Awakening (To Blacklist)
A track from The Book of Sarth that starts as the hum of a badly plugged-in cable and turns into a melody.
What it is
A track from The Book of Sarth, my graphic novel and concept album built as one iPad app, and the first track on Transmissions from the Book of Sarth. One of my favorite things about this track is the morph from the hum to a rhythmic/pitched pattern.
There’s a scene in ‘Book of Sarth’ where the office workers are coming out of a daze, they are transitioning back in to reality, and the hum transforming really ended up matching this perfectly. (I don’t know which idea came first.)
How I made it
The making of it is its own page, with the audio examples and the screenshots from the session: About Awakening (To Blacklist), November 21, 2020.
The credit“Awakening (To Blacklist)” is by Sarth Calhoun, from The Book of Sarth, 2012, and the first track on Transmissions from the Book of Sarth, 2013. Built in Ableton Live from a recording of 60 cycle hum.