‘… an amusing full ensemble work based on the rhythms and gestures of language tapes.  The clarinet was, in effect, the voice on the tape, and the other instruments were the students – variously willing or difficult, competent or bumbling – who must repeat the phrases.  Mr. Bermel spins this interaction into an increasingly chaotic fantasy that would have been perfectly at home on a program with Berio’s Sequenza III .'
The New York Times (Allan Kozinn), 8 December 2003