- “...a
marvelous original score [The Beggar's Table].”
- “Swendsen's
highly skillful score [Deflecting Faith] was richly detailed; it ranged
from pure music to sermons, confessionals, and exhortations that he
mixed and fractured to float through the work like echoing memories.”
- “[Deflecting
Faith's] cornerstone contribution is the score. Frequent Carbonara collaborator
Peter V. Swendsen has assembled the sonic equivalent of ether. An Arvo
Part-like piano melody melts into refracted whispers. Brutish street
noise fades to unnerving silence. Snippets of evangelical sermons reverberate
until the words disintegrate into pure sound.”
- “…cerebral,
carefully crafted work.”
- Lea Marshall:
C-ville Weekly, 1/27/04
- “…a
constant metallic tone along with the tinkling of bells [in Picture
me Running] created the mystic ambience both for the dancer and the
audience to accept the facts of life.”
- Sulagna Mukhopadhyay:
Hindustan Times, 11/03
- “...a large-scale
work emotionally, Carbonara's Little Girl Lost, had a clear and unmisunderstandable
relation to the sound score which Peter Swendsen made for it. [The sound]
is layered so as to work like a choral ode: there are lines which make
literal sense, and establish the theme and other confused voices that
build up an almost symphonic, oceanic heightening of the emotion—so
that the feeling has no name but its urgency is overpowering.”
- Paul Parish:
Dance View West, 8/03
- “...the mix
of electronic music, modern dance, theater and film [systems = nothing]
would probably push your senses in some new directions.”
- Janet Levaux
: The Montclarion 12/14/01
- “Peter V.
Swendsen's ominous score [Impact of Buildings] is just dandy.”
- Allan Ulrich:
SF Chronicle & Dance Magazine Music & Dance Critic, SF Chronicle
7/16/01
- “The music
by Peter V. Swendsen [Impact of Buildings] spirits a piece that explores
every tangent extending from the deepest emotional places in the dancer
outward to the ensemble and beyond.”
- Toba Singer:
voiceofdance.org, 7/16/01
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