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title: Awakening (To Blacklist)
description: How Sarth Calhoun built the track Awakening (To Blacklist) from 60-cycle hum in Ableton Live, using a frequency shifter preset called Space Birds, and matched it to a scene in The Book of Sarth.
url: https://www.sarth.net/conspiracies/awakening-to-blacklist/
published: 2026-09-22
facet: dream
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.
author: Sarth Calhoun
---
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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](/conspiracies/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*](/transmissions/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.)

[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/6uUtOazhiVXfNU8KAglFv9) · [bookofsarth.com](https://bookofsarth.com)

## 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)](/transmissions/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.