Fanfare Magazine; Issue 16:1 (Sept/Oct 1992)
Computer Music Currents 9 (WERGO 282 028-2 [DDD]; (Distributed by Harmonia Mundi USA.) BENNETT Kyotaku, YUASI Towards “The Midnight Sun“—Homage to Ze-Ami, DELIO Against the silence. . ., ALBRIGHT Sphaera.
...Thomas DeLio (1985/86) Against the Silence . . . , for percussion ensemble and four-channel computer-generated tape... “Throughout the work,“ the composer remarks, “sound arises from decays into a silence which ultimately overwhelms it—hence the title, from the work of the great American poet Paul Blackburn“... Silence indeed dominates this beautiful work. I'd love to hear a staged, surround-sound performance.