Rumors

Spine

1. The Verge · Bryan Bishop · Jan 3, 2013 · Book of Sarth
2. Tumblr Storyboard · Jan 24, 2013 · interview
3. Vogue Italia · Sep 2013 · “Hi-Tech Music” · Book of Sarth
4. Gizmodo · Leslie Horn · Dec 21, 2012 · Apps of the Week
5. The Eighth Nerve · Nov 2012 · Symbolic Sound
6. Stereophile · Ariel Bitran · Apr 23, 2014 · Gralbum launch
7. The New York Times · Ben Ratliff · Apr 25, 2009 · Metal Machine Trio
8. Billboard · Jeffrey Overwood · Oct 8, 2008 · REDCAT
9. Variety · David Sprague · Apr 27, 2009 · Gramercy
10. Rolling Stone · David Fricke · Sep 30, 2011 · Lulu / Continuum
11. The Wire · Ulrich Krieger · 2013 · “Unclassifiable”
12. Buzzbin Magazine · Samson Stryker · Jul 2, 2008 · Lucibel Crater The Family Album

Book of Sarth

• Things really come alive in what’s called the ‘director’s view’: tap an image and the artwork fills the screen, putting the reader in the same place as the characters.

  Calhoun’s music is no doubt experimental, but his tracks and the artwork play nimbly off one another.

  The Verge · Bryan Bishop · Jan 3, 2013

• The app format seems like a completely new medium to work in. Music always needs a new medium, because it’s always changing. I think if music doesn’t have technology on its side, it tends to have the problem of where to go, it starts to run out of steam.

  Sarth Calhoun, Tumblr Storyboard · ~Jan 24, 2013

• a narrative about an ear worm that is, itself, an ear worm! The Book of Sarth is the first example of an entirely new art form for the early 21st century.

  The Eighth Nerve · Nov 2012

• I wouldn’t mind rolling a j before playing with this trippy app.

  Gizmodo · Leslie Horn · Dec 21, 2012

• Chi invece è riuscito a coniare un nuovo concetto di ‘album musicale’ è Sarth Calhoun con il suo sorprendente The Book of Sarth.

  Vogue Italia · Sep 2013 · “Hi-Tech Music”

• Launch at SOHO Digital Arts.

  Stereophile · Ariel Bitran · Apr 23, 2014
• Laughing Squid · Brian Heater · Apr 8, 2014
• Chain D.L.K.

Lucibel Crater

• this is totally music to get high to.

  Buzzbin Magazine · Samson Stryker · Jul 2, 2008

• Something like Bjork and maybe like White Stripes; But the truth is that their sound is unique and not easy to label, to the extent that even Lou Reed has fallen in love with it.

  Urban Magazine (Italia) · Simone Tempia · 2009

• Lucibel Crater surprise us with a schizoid, unpredictable sound made of both live improvisations and thoughtful studio recordings.

  Vogue Italia · Simone Tempia · 2009 · Lucibel, not the 2013 Book of Sarth piece

Metal Machine Trio

• The duo took the stage along with Sarth Calhoun, a computer-based sound designer… Calhoun, seated behind a desk with computers and mixers, added chunky layers of sub-frequency bass vibrations to the mix.

  Billboard · Jeffrey Overwood · Oct 8, 2008 · REDCAT

• On Thursday night at the Blender Theater at Gramercy, onstage between Sarth Calhoun and Ulrich Krieger, two much younger musicians, he was making noise — improvised, loud, heavily processed, and some of it ugly enough to make people leave.

  The New York Times · Ben Ratliff · Apr 25, 2009

• teaming with the composer and saxophonist Ulrich Krieger and the multi-instrumentalist Sarth Calhoun to create ‘a night of deep noise.’

  The New York Times · listing · Apr 17, 2009

• It would be too warm and fuzzy to suggest that he engaged bandmate Sarth Calhoun — who did much of his work on a laptop — in any sort of interplay, but the two did combine to create a formidable wall of sound.

  Variety · David Sprague · Apr 27, 2009

• Calhoun started playing his Continuum as if it was a throbbing Hammond organ, creating a low undulating swarm of sound.

  Rolling Stone · Apr 2009

• Lou decided to bring Sarth along at the last minute; he met him at tai chi practice, played with him at home and wanted his electronic sounds for this concert.

  Ulrich Krieger, The Wire · 2013 · “Unclassifiable”

• Lou said, I don’t want to play duo, I have this electronic guy in New York and I’d like to bring him along. So he brought Sarth Calhoun in.

  Ulrich Krieger, OC Weekly · Jan 27, 2012
• SPIN · John Macdonald · Apr 24, 2009 · names the Continuum Fingerboard
• Village Voice · Apr 15, 2009

Lulu

• long drones on cello and an electronic instrument, the Continuum, played by Reed and Sarth Calhoun, a member of Reed’s band. (Calhoun also appears on Lulu.)

  David Fricke, Rolling Stone · Sep 30, 2011 · describing the original Wilson-era tapes

Books

• I am in Anthony DeCurtis, Lou Reed: A Life (2017, Little, Brown / Dey Street).

• I was interviewed for Lou Reed, The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi (March 14, 2023, HarperOne); The Kitchen Sisters name me as an interviewee. Brookfield Place Winter Garden, Lou Reed’s 81st birthday, March 2, 2023: I played a guest performance with Kevin Hearn, Shahzad Ismaily, Laurie Anderson, against Lou Reed’s Musical Drones (Stewart Hurwood).