"This West Coaster-turned-Dartmouth prof is the heir apparent to the Cowell/Nancarrow/Tenney genius experimentalist mantle." --Kyle Gann, Village Voice

"I was not familiar with the music of Larry Polansky before receiving this disc, but after enjoying the witty, clever, generally untraditional canons here, I will be keeping an eye out for more. . . . On every piece, regardless of its technological genesis, careful attention reveals the rigor Polansky applies to his materials, of whatever sort. The variety of sounds is entertaining and attractive, and sometimes amusing." --Steve Holtje, Fanfare magazine

"The music of Larry Polansky is as much fun to listen to as it is to think or get serious about. . . . the results are dazzling as each canon defines its individual properties and unique sound world. . . . The transformations are ubiquitous and compelling. For instance, a sepulchral gamelan quickens to become a euphony of oriental bells; the sound texture of seven speaking children thickens until we no longer hear voices but only a dense, pulsed, multi-layered timbre; separate, computer-generated sounds turn into a brilliant, bell-like tintinnabulation. Part of the seriousness of all this fun is that it has something, or rather many things, to say. Notably about time, for instance: time as a process that can exist simultaneously in multiple versions of itself, as several processes; time as multi-layered, each layer unfolding according to its own temporal logic. Or about perception: about how the familiar can be made strange, or the strange appear familiar, as the passage from simplicity to complexity becomes a process in which we reflexively participate. And implied here is a further, crucial suggestion: that these transformations have as much to do with the world as with ourselves. With so much on offer, this is one of the best discs Cold Blue music has issued since the company?s revival two years ago." --International Record Review

"Larry Polansky reveals yet another unashamedly tactile approach to musical material, forging an oblique angle to tradition. . . . Polansky?s cool and elegant set of 16 four-part canons . . . it?s a mark of his resourceful mind that he can adapt the basic rules into a series of such complex and varied works. . . . Polansky?s canons show the extreme liberties that can be born from such exacting discipline, given imagination and willing." --The Wire

"I like Larry's work very much. He's got a real point of view, which is one of the things that is hardest to come by." --Ben Johnston, Perspectives of New Music