graphic + album
The first gralbum
The Book of Sarth is an interactive graphic novel and a musical album in one object. Eight experimental songs. An 80-page animated book. A 30-minute DirectedView you reorder by touch.
Tap a panel and you are in the picture with the characters. The music is the story. The pictures are the score.
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What they wrote
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Calhoun’s music is no doubt experimental, but his tracks and the artwork play nimbly off one another.
The Verge -
The first example of an entirely new art form for the early 21st century.
The Eighth Nerve -
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
Brooklyn · now
Who is Sarth
Sarth Calhoun builds the instrument and plays it. Music, software, pictures. He founded Third Wall Studio in 2025, adult animation as drama, and spent a year of his life on Burlap, the local-first canvas for Visual Reference Prompting: original images as the input to making more images, pushing generation into a new probability space. Third Wall uses it.
The Book of Sarth is the first gralbum, 2012, the art object this site is. Before that: Number19 off mp3.com, Lucibel Crater, Metal Machine Trio with Lou Reed and Ulrich Krieger, the original Lulu score with Reed for Robert Wilson, then the Lou Reed and Metallica album. Continuum. Kyma. He is the continuum fingerboarding champion of the world.