“hometown heroes”
— Estlin Usher, WFMT

On the album for a•pe•ri•od•ic

  • Avant Music News, review: ‘The group . . . performs works biased toward various kinds of indeterminacy, whether of orchestration, sound material, or architecture. Silence also plays a major role in their music, whether as primary material or as a structural element.’

  • Chicago Reader, concert preview: “The record’s four pieces, composed respectively by Billie Howard, Michael Pisaro, and ensemble members Kenn Kumpf and Nomi Epstein, showcase a•pe•ri•od•ic’s rigorous execution of scores whose parameters include indeterminacy.”

On the album jürg frey: more or less

  • Included in the Chicago Reader’s “Our favorite music of 2014”

  • Review by Brian Olewnick: “Like all the works on this release, and common to Frey, the performers have wide latitude with regard to their negotiating a way through the score, here choosing when to initiate and play their two lines. Akin to the above, though sounding quite different, there's a strong feeling of shifting masses, here more laminar and semi-solid. So lovely when, as near the conclusion, the bulk of the instruments subside, leaving a lone voice, in this case piano. Beautiful piece.”

  • Included on Big City Blog’s “Best new music albums of 2014”

  • Included on Rhapsody.com’s “Top 25 Classical Albums of 2014”

“Since 2010, a·pe·ri·od·ic has enriched Chicago’s new-music scene by performing new and rarely heard work by composers who augment their prescribed sounds with indeterminate events and collaborative processes.”
— Bill Meyer, Chicago Reader

Profiled in the Chicago Reader

“the performance was utterly sublime and transportive.”
— Jack Wang, UChicago News

Coverage of A John Cage Festival (2012)