Bio:

Sarth Calhoun is a musician who stubbornly refuses to choose. Rather he seeks to synthesize: electronic and acoustic, improvised and composed, alien and familiar, sound design and spoken word.

Fortunately he has been helped in this quest to have his cake and eat it too, sharing stage and studio with luminaries of the nebulous world where rock and jazz dissolve into pure sound and poetry, such as Ulrich Krieger, Rob Wasserman, John Zorn, and Laurie Anderson.

Most frequently he has collaborated with Lou Reed, with whom he has worked on a number of projects ranging from meditation music to rock shows to touring with the deep-noise Metal Machine Trio.

In the spring of 2011, he cowrote with Reed an original electronic score for Robert Wilson's adaptation of Lulu. That score, and the associated lyrics formed the basis for the Lou Reed Metallica collaboration by the same name, on which Sarth played. The album was released in November of 2011 and brought the exploration of texture and noise into a completely new context.

Sarth's current endeavor is a multi-media narrative which will be available soon on the iPad.

He is the bandleader for Lucibel Crater, fronted by singer/songwriter/cellist Leah Coloff, and with Paul Chuffo on drums. Often described as "cubist," this trio has been called "Bjork crossed with the White Stripes." Lucibel Crater uses experimental methods to create music with familiar structure and grooves; A typical Lucibel Crater show might begin by meticulous live looping of syncopated drum parts, build into a crescendo of noise, then dissolve and coalesce into a catchy melody sung over a brooklyn-style groove.

When performing with Lucibel Crater, Sarth is a modern electronic alchemist, using multiple laptops to loop and distort sounds while he plays bass and melodies on a Continuum Fingerboard. He is an endorser for Ableton Live and a beta tester for the Symbolic Sound Kyma system, which he has used to develop a new kind of synthesis he calls SeqOSC, a relative of AM synthesis derived from exploring the analogies between rhythm and timbre. When agitated during performance, he tests the physical limits of the continuum fingerboard, attacking the instrument "like a lion chasing a wounded wildebeast." After watching videos of Sarth's playing at lollapalooza to 50,000 people, Lippold Haken, the continuum's creator said: "I Lost sleep. I even dreamt about it last night. It was one of those thousands-of-people-watching nightmares."

Lucibel Crater is a trio which is collapsing boundaries and discovering new polarities to exploit. Their live shows are a journey, you get on the road at the beginning and at the end you exit in a whole new place. And perhaps you never return ...

Their first full-length "The Family Album" was released in 2008 and features a Lou Reed guest appearance. Upcoming releases include a series of singles by different producers and an instrumental/improvised CD. Look for them soon.