“This is unique on a number of levels beginning with the hand painted covers and John’s own liner notes that are like snippets of his literary aspect. The cover painting is its own layer as it effaces the background of John performing in front of Pollack paintings exhibited at the old ICA location

There is an aspect of Musique Concrete, not in the sense that any of the sounds have been tape manipulated but in the very astute use of multi-track and emerging digital recording to convey ideas in times and places of slender resources. It is, on the whole, a studio project and serves as a vivid exposition of John’s thinking as a composer in some oscillation between composition and improvisation.” –Chris Rich, Synesthesia Arts