"Ultimately, despite its competitive edge,
Glimmer may have just as much of a uniting effect as Jason Freeman’s other
works, which bring together voices and files from remote corners of the
internet community. Glimmer seems to unite its participants in an older and
more well-worn, well-loved environment: that of a dark space punctuated by
light. In any number of age-old rituals, we sit together with light in
darkness: from campfires, to nightclubs, to winter holidays. In Glimmer, we sit
together in a shared sea of glow-sticks, even as we may compete to be the last
man standing."
— Dawn Chan, New York Arts
Magazine, May/June 2005
"...the audience seemed elated by the
experience."
— Anthony Tommasini, New York
Times, 1/22/05
[about the American Composers Orchestra's premiere of
Glimmer]
"N.A.G. ...stands as an example of the Web's
mind-expanding possibilities."
— Troy Carpenter, Billboard.com,
7/22/03
“Not only is N.A.G. an aural experience but it is
also an active one, which, like much of his other work, succeeds at breaking
down the barriers between composer, performer, and listener. The project aims
to allow people who hadn't had the same musical opportunities as Freeman to be
able to have a creative experience with sound.”
— Amanda MacBlane, New Music Box, 7/17/03
"I am listening to some of the more fascinating
sounds I've ever heard. Further afield than John Oswald's Plunderphonics and
mash ups, the "songs" created by Jason Freeman's Network Auralization
for Gnutella application are a shadowy snapshot of the sounds between songs.
What we'd hear in the narrow spaces between parallel planes of existence. The
songs that shadows and static sing."
— Heath Row’s
Media Diet, 7/14/03
"Addictive and fun, and when you give it a good
set of search terms this fascinating download's [N.A.G.'s] aural collage-making
is positively unreal."
— USA Today.com,
7/14/03
"The results [of N.A.G.] are strangely haunting,
extremely avant garde remixes, dada for the P2P generation."
— Exoskeleton,
7/8/03
"[Telephone Etude #1: Shakespeare Cuisinart is]
a gas to do, but it’s also thought provoking, and hugely democratic —
considering that it lets non musical, non technical, unwired people use regular
phones to access some of the internet’s most sophisticated features."
—
David Giddens, MediaTV,
2001
"The results [of Telephone Etude #1: Shakespeare
Cuisinart] sound both familiar and strange. Although the voice is recognizably
your own, it has been looped, layered and rearranged so that randomly selected
passages recur and overlap in a fuguelike counterpoint reminiscent of vocal
works by the composer Steve Reich."
— Matthew Mirapaul, New York
Times, 6/25/01