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Read about our latest "Composer Residency" at ARCOSANTI!
"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