"Around it, composer Andy Pink - who specialises in sound and music design for arts performances - has constructed a highly disparate score (including many musical quotations, six modern sources plus a Bach canon being named) proceeding from initial fury to finally peaceful settlement". John Percival The Stage

"The ensemble's range of motion operates on multiple dynamic levels against a rich, varied aural landscape assembled by Andy Pink". Donald Hutera The Times

"During the whole of the opening section, Andy Pink's score fills the stage with waves of clashing, grinding noise. The sound is a deliberate assault on the dancers, who appear to be flung around by its force - catapulted into flailing, staggered lines, or dashed, twisting, to the floor. For the audience, seated on all four sides of the stage, the combination of driven energy and savage pattern making is overwhelming; it comes as a relief when Pink's music and David Ward's lighting begin to calm the frenzy." Judith Mackrell The Guardian

"Sound is central to this work, with more than a hundred different sound sources from classical to jazz and the latest digital samplings. At its heart is the song of the Australian Pied Butcher Bird, which is a series of notes it rearranges into different sequences of signalling and display. Rather than being birds, the dancers explore the shape of the sounds scored by Andy Pink." Gavin Roebuck The Stage

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