One final perspective that occurs to me is that these works, though they have and will likely continue to age very well, sound full of the DNA of a single, virtuosic individual Californian in the mid-seventies. Obviously that is very cool. This music is sublime, and it would not be surprising if Barry Schrader hears on this CD today pretty nearly what he intended to put down.
Ted Coffey (Journal SEAMUS) on Lost Atlantis
On the Beyond CD...
This music conjures up a whirlwind of emotion from some primeval source that permeates the listener with awe.
Bebe Barron, pioneering composer of electronic music and the score for Forbidden Planet
When listening to these recordings side-by-side, Mr. Schrader's strong sense of compositional style and detailed sensitivity to time, space, and timbre are evident. His music flows over the listener, ebbing and flowing through a gamut of emotional states. Schrader's music withstands the test of time and stands uniquely in the American electronic music genre.
Elainie Lillios, Computer Music Journal
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