"Ethan Hayden painstakingly transcribes the eight untitled tracks on ( ) into a series of long vowel sounds and odd clusters of consonants in an attempt to diagram the syntax of this strange new tongue and figure out what the band might be saying (despite their best efforts not to say anything)."

— Pitchfork

"[Hayden's] triumph was in completing Kourliandski's relentless oral assault—a fusillade of wet, percussive slaps, grunts, clicks, pops and sustained notes produced with tongue, cheeks, lips, teeth, throat and what had to be peerless breath control. […] Voice-off was an undeniable feat of endurance, technical virtuosity, and compositional imagination."

— New York Classical Review

"Ethan Hayden gave a tour de force performance […]. It was amazing to hear."

— New York Times

"Vocalist-trombonist Ethan Hayden's arrangement of Charles Ives's "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven" led the whole band into glory both instrumentally and vocally. The performance was an apt celebration of the original work's centennial, as well as an exhibition of Wooden Cities' exuberance, daring, and attention to detail."

— Jay Harvey Upstage

"'Ribble Bobble Pimlico' is an ecstatic composition, and Wooden Cities' vocalists performed it with poise and gusto. Their willingness to be vulnerable and silly was laudable, as they imbued a seemingly inane poem with seriousness of purpose. […] Rochester-area music organizations and ensembles should take notice. A concert that educates and empowers young musicians through the rare performance of experimental music, now there's an intriguing concept."

— Rochester City Newspaper

"Luckily for us all, [Colin Tucker, Ethan Hayden, and their Buffalo-based Null Point collective for experimental music] not only sought more information on 'PLACE', but took it upon themselves to create two realizations of the work, at Silo City and Artpark spaces, both in the Buffalo area"

— Sound American