--- title: Rumors description: Press on Sarth Calhoun: Book of Sarth, Metal Machine Trio, Lulu, Lucibel Crater. Verbatim quotes. The Verge, New York Times, Billboard, Rolling Stone, The Wire. url: https://www.sarth.net/rumors/ author: Sarth Calhoun --- Press and announcements # Rumors Press on the work, quoted exactly as published. I made Metal Machine Trio with [Lou Reed](/conspirators/lou-reed/) and [Ulrich Krieger](/conspirators/ulrich-krieger/), and wrote the original *Lulu* score with Reed for [Robert Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wilson_(director)); the [Metallica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica) album grew from those recordings. ## Spine 1. [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/3828314/the-book-of-sarth-ipad-app-graphic-novel-concept-album) · Bryan Bishop · Jan 3, 2013 · Book of Sarth 2. [Tumblr Storyboard](https://web.archive.org/web/20140812122953/http://storyboard.tumblr.com/post/41358319321/the-book-of-sarth-an-interactive-cyberpunk-tale) · Jan 24, 2013 · interview 3. [Vogue Italia](https://www.vogue.it/people-are-talking-about/vogue-arts/2013/09/app-musicali) · Sep 2013 · “Hi-Tech Music” · Book of Sarth 4. [Gizmodo](https://gizmodo.com/tabletop-translator-book-of-sarth-and-more-5970597) · Leslie Horn · Dec 21, 2012 · Apps of the Week 5. [The Eighth Nerve](https://news.symbolicsound.com/2012/11/the-book-of-sarth/) · Nov 2012 · Symbolic Sound 6. [Stereophile](https://www.stereophile.com/content/gralbum-re-thinking-concept-album) · Ariel Bitran · Apr 23, 2014 · Gralbum launch 7. [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/arts/music/25reed.html) · [Ben Ratliff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Ratliff) · Apr 25, 2009 · Metal Machine Trio 8. [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lou-reed-oct-3-2008-los-angeles-redcatcalarts-theater-1043833/) · Jeffrey Overwood · Oct 8, 2008 · REDCAT 9. [Variety](https://variety.com/2009/music/markets-festivals/lou-reed-3-1117940137/) · David Sprague · Apr 27, 2009 · Gramercy 10. [Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/when-metallica-met-lou-reed-78019/) · [David Fricke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fricke) · Sep 30, 2011 · Lulu / Continuum 11. [The Wire](https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/lou-reed-1942-2013_ulrich-krieger_unclassifiable) · Ulrich Krieger · 2013 · “Unclassifiable” 12. [Buzzbin Magazine](https://web.archive.org/web/20110621012417/http://www.buzzbinmagazine.com/home/2008/07/02/lucibel-crater-the-family-album/) · 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](https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/3828314/the-book-of-sarth-ipad-app-graphic-novel-concept-album) · 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](https://web.archive.org/web/20140812122953/http://storyboard.tumblr.com/post/41358319321/the-book-of-sarth-an-interactive-cyberpunk-tale) · ~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](https://news.symbolicsound.com/2012/11/the-book-of-sarth/) · Nov 2012 - > I wouldn’t mind rolling a j before playing with this trippy app. [Gizmodo](https://gizmodo.com/tabletop-translator-book-of-sarth-and-more-5970597) · 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](https://www.vogue.it/people-are-talking-about/vogue-arts/2013/09/app-musicali) · Sep 2013 · “Hi-Tech Music” - Launch at SOHO Digital Arts. [Stereophile](https://www.stereophile.com/content/gralbum-re-thinking-concept-album) · Ariel Bitran · Apr 23, 2014 - [Laughing Squid](https://laughingsquid.com/gralbum-an-ipad-app-that-turns-records-into-a-multimedia-experience/) · Brian Heater · Apr 8, 2014 - [Chain D.L.K.](https://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/7353) ## Lucibel Crater - > this is totally music to get high to. [Buzzbin Magazine](https://web.archive.org/web/20110621012417/http://www.buzzbinmagazine.com/home/2008/07/02/lucibel-crater-the-family-album/) · 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](https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lou-reed-oct-3-2008-los-angeles-redcatcalarts-theater-1043833/) · 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](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/arts/music/25reed.html) · 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](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/arts/music/17pop.html) · 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](https://variety.com/2009/music/markets-festivals/lou-reed-3-1117940137/) · 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](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lou-reed-brings-controversial-metal-machine-music-to-life-114478/) · 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](https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/lou-reed-1942-2013_ulrich-krieger_unclassifiable) · 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](https://www.ocweekly.com/metal-machine-trios-ulrich-krieger-the-trio-is-an-update-of-lou-reeds-metal-machine-music-in-philosophical-and-aesthetic-sense-6581450/) · Jan 27, 2012 - [SPIN](https://www.spinmagazine.com/2009/04/lou-reed-unleashes-metal-machine-music-nyc/) · John Macdonald · Apr 24, 2009 · names the Continuum Fingerboard - [Village Voice](https://www.villagevoice.com/lou-reeds-metal-machine-trio/) · 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](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/when-metallica-met-lou-reed-78019/) · 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](https://kitchensisters.org/podcast/lou-reeds-tai-chi/) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Hearn), Shahzad Ismaily, [Laurie Anderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Anderson), against Lou Reed’s Musical Drones (Stewart Hurwood).