"...Breaking up smooth surfaces and scuffing up perfection are some of Ms. Halo’s objectives in her own work. 'Laurel’s music is off-kilter,' said Argeo Ascani, the curator at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York, where Ms. Halo took part in a two-week residency in 2015. 'It’s always a step off, running in a parallel world where the rules are slightly different.'..."

The New York Times has selected Ensemble Signal's recording of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians as one of the year's best classical albums. The project was recorded in its entirety at EMPAC back in 2011 and the group will be back to record more Reich this coming spring.