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title: Transmissions from the Book of Sarth
description: Transmissions from the Book of Sarth, the 2013 four-track EP by Sarth Calhoun from the music of The Book of Sarth: Awakening (To Blacklist), Table (If I Can), Primary Defenestration (Deforestation), For Valentina (To Your Rescue).
url: https://www.sarth.net/transmissions/transmissions-from-the-book-of-sarth/
published: 2013
facet: dream
credit: *Transmissions from the Book of Sarth*, 2013: four pieces by Sarth Calhoun from the music of *The Book of Sarth*, made with Kyma, published through The Gralbum Collective.
author: Sarth Calhoun
---
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# *Transmissions from the Book of Sarth*

*Transmissions from the Book of Sarth* is a four-track EP I released in 2013 from the music of [*The Book of Sarth*](/conspiracies/book-of-sarth/), the graphic novel and concept album I built as an iPad app the year before. The score was made with [Kyma](/devices/).

![Cover of Transmissions from the Book of Sarth.](/images/art-transmissions-from-the-book-of-sarth.jpg)

Cover, *Transmissions from the Book of Sarth*, 2013.

[Embedded player](https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/2AK3ADNcGHccdecSkjV43k)

## Listen

Four pieces: “Awakening (To Blacklist),” “Table (If I Can),” “Primary Defenestration (Deforestation)” and “For Valentina (To Your Rescue).” The first has [its own page](/conspiracies/awakening-to-blacklist/): its melody is made out of a recording of 60 cycle hum. On [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/2AK3ADNcGHccdecSkjV43k).

## The hum

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.)

I start with a recording of typical 60 cycle hum. This was pretty straightforward, I probably just messed with a 1/4” cable partially plugged into my Marshall amp, or something similar. I wanted to see if I could transform that sound into something.

The whole of that, with the audio examples, is on its own page: [About Awakening (To Blacklist)](/transmissions/about-awakening-to-blacklist/).

![Artwork from The Book of Sarth: koi in three panels.](/images/book-of-sarth-fish.jpg)

From *The Book of Sarth*.

> Calhoun’s music is no doubt experimental, but his tracks and the artwork play nimbly off one another.
> 
> Bryan Bishop, [The Verge, January 3, 2013](https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/3828314/the-book-of-sarth-ipad-app-graphic-novel-concept-album)

## Conspiracies

The music of [*The Book of Sarth*](/conspiracies/book-of-sarth/), released as a record a year after the app. Published through [The Gralbum Collective](/conspiracies/gralbum-collective/). The app is at [bookofsarth.com](https://bookofsarth.com).

The credit: *Transmissions from the Book of Sarth*, 2013: four pieces by Sarth Calhoun from the music of *The Book of Sarth*, made with Kyma, published through The Gralbum Collective.

My paragraphs on the hum are from “About Awakening (To Blacklist)” on my site, November 21, 2020. Track list from Spotify.