Name: DaltonThe Book of Sarth: An Interactive Cyberpunk Tale
The influences of Brooklyn-based electronic musician Sarth Calhoun — of Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Trio — are, to put it succinctly, sprawling. Stretching from the surreal novels of Haruki Murakami to rock-opera bands like Pink Floyd and the innovations of sound-generating software system (he calls himself an “electronic alchemist”), his interests are so diverse that it becomes hard to peg him to any one genre. That ambiguity is particularly fitting for his latest project, The Book of Sarth, an interactive, multimedia iPhone and iPad app that combines original music with photography, illustration and ambient sound design. Calhoun calls it a “gralbum” — that’s short for “graphic album.”
The Book of Sarth (available on iTunes) sets off with two children who discover a mysterious piece of technology that emits unfamiliar sounds (music!) — sounds that could change the world, though the government attempts to cover them up. Set to Calhoun’s driving, synthesized electronic music, the graphics that accompany the unfolding narrative move from augmented photographs to cartoons and back again — an edgy match for a dystopian cyberpunk adventure.
The story is set in a kind of futuristic dystopia where there’s no music. How did that idea come about?
The story is an archetypical story. Kids find a device and it affects them in a certain way, the sounds it makes and the music affects them in a certain way. It’s symbolic, a meta-narrative about how music and technology can change people. The whole story was inspired by the music.
Thank you.
I know i haven’t been on in a while. I’ve had some things I’ve had to figure out. About myself and about some other things. I just wanted to say that i know im not perfect and i know i may not be the best person out there but i am the type that will change. I love everyone and do everything to make sure that others are okay. Even before i do anything for myself. I want to say sorry for all the times iv messed up and all the times i didn’t do enough or over did things. but that’s just who i am. I never stop caring for others even if i have every reason in the world to utterly hate their guts, Some part of me still feels for them. And if your reading this, Which i hope you are, then i am sorry. You and everyone else said that i was the best thing for you and that ever happened to you but honestly i think that you where the best thing that could have happened to me at that point. You made me fell like the teenager and kid that i was never able to be because of how i had to grow up. All of the trouble and time that i put into our relationship was completely worth it in the end. And the bad part about it is that i know if i ever got the chance to have you again or redo it i would in an instant. There is only one thing i would do different and that is to make sure that i didn’t lose you again. You still cross my mind almost everyday. And every time it rains i go outside and sit in it and all i can think about is that day that we skipped class and were laying at the benches and listened to the rain and just talked. Iguess what im saying is that i miss you and im glad that you gave me the chance to experience what it was like to feel like a kid.
- me: why am i single
- me: i am FUNNY
- me: AND NICE
- me: WHAT ELSE DO U NEED
- comes in contact with mirror
- me: oh
Who cares if i die? Cause i fucking dont.
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