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"....his thinking reaches deeply into the vast potential of sound and movement possibilities, all the while mysterious and provocative. From Loie fuller's fluttering skirts to Edison's light and sound inventions, we have come a long way......." - Janet Mansfield Soares, Dance Scholar, 2020.

On his comprehensive conclusions identifying a direction in music specific to dance : "..............and worthy of John Cage" -Katherine Teck, Dance Music Scholar & Historian, 2018

"A thoughtful, wise and sincere innovator, a platonic composer and artist commanding a vast experience of making music and thinking about dance in its relation to sound. He strikes me as a horseman of the divine..." -Johannes Birringer, Artistic Director/Choreographer, DAP Lab, 2015

On developing the Open Source Dance Methodology: "What Open Source Dance provides, is unprecedented in dance and it is needed......" -Julie Kerr-Berry, Dance Scholar, 2009

On the score for evening length dance work- 'Gravity Games: Analog Bodies Surfing a Digital World', Red Eye Collaborations, Red Eye Theater. "...........Otherworldly" - Star Tribune, Minneapolis, 2000

"........but it is as a composer for dance that he truly excels. Here he is freer to explore a more richly textured and structurally complex contribution to the choreographic images." -James Payton, Choreographer, Musician, Former Soloist, Jose Limon Dance Company, 1995


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