Press

“Top to bottom, AGAINST METHOD is a stirring listen."

- Sequenza 21

“there is no hype in calling this ensemble a supergroup…”

- anearful, Best of 2020 Classical Recordings

Playing with a passion that comes from that good place..."

- Midwest Record, Chris Spector

“The ultimate takeaway was that this is a great album, filled
with intoxicating melodies, clever motifs,
and the kind of playing that leaves your jaw ajar.

- Vital Weekly

"Everything was right... played with a fiery ensemble virtuosity." 

— The New York Times

"...musicians belong to the excellent new-music ensemble counter)induction, which has proved a charismatic purveyor of contemporary fare in recent years. 

— The New York Times

"...Benjamin Fingland, the ensemble’s clarinetist, transformed its whispers and shouts into a compellingly musical performance. The string playing, by the same ensemble that performed the Nono, was propulsive, sharp-edged and tightly knit..." 

— The New York Times

"If you want to know what is on the collective mind of American music, there is probably more information to be had from small concerts by groups like counter)induction than in major commissions for bigger events." 

— The New York Times

Most of the time the new-music ensemble counter)induction looks resolutely to the future. But on Saturday evening it turned its gaze inward and back with a program titled ‘Epitaphs: Music in Memoriam.’... in which thoughts of death intertwined with the promise of consolation.”

— The New York Times