---
title: Andrew Beck
description: Andrew Beck, lead programmer of The Book of Sarth app and the (gr)album platform, who worked with Sarth Calhoun on it for three years.
url: https://www.sarth.net/conspirators/andrew-beck/
credit: Andrew Beck was lead programmer of The Book of Sarth (2012) and the (gr)album platform (2014), conceived and founded by Sarth Calhoun.
author: Sarth Calhoun
---
[Conspirators](/conspirators/) / Andrew Beck

Conspirator

# Andrew Beck

Lead programmer of the (gr)album app. We worked on it for three years.

> the duo worked together for three years and ended up creating a system that any artist could utilize to package his or her own album.
> 
> Ariel Bitran, [Stereophile, April 23, 2014](https://www.stereophile.com/content/gralbum-re-thinking-concept-album)

[Andrew Beck](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abeck99/) was the lead programmer of (gr)album, the iPad and iPhone app platform built to publish *The Book of Sarth* in October 2012 and, from April 2014, other artists’ gralbums. Stereophile, reporting from the launch, introduced him as “Lead Programmer Andrew Beck.” His later work is on his LinkedIn and [GitHub](https://github.com/abeck99).

## Book of Sarth and (gr)album

He built the app that became [Book of Sarth](/conspiracies/book-of-sarth/), released in October 2012, and the platform behind [The Gralbum Collective](/conspiracies/gralbum-collective/), launched on April 9, 2014, where the two of us were interviewed together. He is the first of the four people I thanked when the Book was finished: Andrew Beck was amazing.

The credit: Andrew Beck was lead programmer of The Book of Sarth (2012) and the (gr)album platform (2014), conceived and founded by Sarth Calhoun.

The profile is from public sources, linked where they appear. What we made is the record on this site and the sources cited above.