PRESS

"The EAR Unit performs with exuberance and razor sharp precision." - New York Times

"The California EAR Unit, d'excellents musiciens...un ensemble de tres grand qualite." - La Province

"The exhilaration in their playing, as they plunge with glorious high spirits and dazzling skill into the world's most daunting repertoire...should be reward enough for anybody." - LA Style Magazine

"Wizards of new music." - LA Daily News

(For "Then and Now," a Morton Subotnick tribute)

"...electronic music...unpredictable, mysterious, physical, sensuous, ecstatic." - Mark Swed, the LA Times

(For "Eclectica")

"James Sellars's accurately titled 'Go,' a densely textured ten minute non-stop vertigo trip...down geared to a more tender section before the final mad dash to the end." - Albuquerque Journal

"John Adams’ enormously effective Road Movies, the horizon line of a melody shifting almost imperceptively in a lazy drive thru Paris, Texas." - The Independent

"Julia Wolfe's 'Girlfriend' was the evenings most oddly moving piece. An unexpectedly delicate, rhythmically compelling sample patchwork, the piece combines screeching tires and intimations of a traffic calamity with droning, mournful chords in the live music component."- Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times

(For "That 70's Show")

"Everything that was happening in the 70's at least everything that was sampled at this one exhilerating event-seemed to be happening for the first time." - Alan Rich, LA Weekly

(For "Crippled Symmetry")

"...a mesmerizing, time bending, spiritual experience..." - Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times