“As the quartet lightly drew their bows over the strings to create whispery, ghostlike tones, sounds of industrial suspensions emerged: a train easing into a station with faint screeches as it comes to a stop; the slight creaks of a ship swaying on water.”

“electronics were still very quiet, and impossible to identify, but had a certain density, a soft sumptuousness.”

“it held the audience spellbound.”

“One of the most beautiful things i’ve heard at HCMF this year...”

“ The Paris-based composer. . .who has already been honored with many prizes and awards and whose new work received a very concentrated performance by academy fellows, is a discovery.”

“it was touching in its use of the female voice”

“The ICE musicians – on flute, voice, clarinet, viola, cello, percussion and piano – achieved extraordinarily diaphanous sound in a beguiling piece Alessandrini had updated for this Chicago premiere.”