November 13, 2011 Michael Huebner, Arts Columnist The Birmingham News Grass-roots performers essential to Birmingham arts Arnold Schoenberg's quotation, "If it is art, it not for all, and if it for all, it is not art" might explain why this established group rarely draws large audiences. But for cutting-edge creativity, this coalition of composers and performers consistently presents innovative new works. Most are premieres, though some deemed worth repeating were presented. Seven electroacoustic works were presented, using such devices as an e-cello, video projection and digital delay. ...William Price's "Rush Hour" represents a melancholy narrative of of a musician practicing while distant sounds get closer, then recede. Enhanced by John Perrine's brilliant soprano saxophone improvs and a crystalline electronic sound accompaniment, its mood-setting ambiance was engaging. Read the entire review at: http://mhuebner.blogs.al.com/

February 17, 2010 Michael Huebner, Arts Columnist The Birmingham News Birmingham Art Music Alliance: Wild, weird and typically eclectic "Birmingham Art Music Alliance concerts rarely fail to explore the unknown. Where else in Birmingham can you hear serious (or semi-serious) music with clucking turkeys, a "green thing," a post-impressionist piano trio, a modern dancer moving to ambient electronic sounds and improvisation between a viola and trap drum set? All framed within 75 minutes?" ------ "The concert's eye-opener came at the end with LaDonna Smith's "Rogatory (now)." Long an proponent of free improvisation, Smith collaborated with percussionist William Price, spewing out a virtual catalog of unorthodox string techniques. Using her viola's fingerboard, bridge and bow, she created sounds that screeched, howled, popped and swooned. Priced matched her with a variety of small gongs, cymbals and drums, throwing in some startling booms on the bass drum. Like it or not, this music dwells in a unique place. Thanks to YouTube, some of it is set in stone." Read the entire review at: http://mhuebner.blogs.al.com/

April 6, 2008 Michael Huebner, Arts Columnist The Birmingham News Musicians flaunt innovative styles with fulfilling Artburst program. "On Monday, the Birmingham Art Music Alliance presented four more recent works...  William Price's inventive "Sans Titre IV" conjured a huge noise with cymbals, bass drum and four timpani, Laura Noah performing percussion acrobatics in a circle of instruments." Read the entire review at: http://mhuebner.blogs.al.com/

	"William Price's tasty little "Three Short Pieces for Tape #3 [Spline]"...is a good example of variety, unity and economy that some of the other composers on this compilation would do well to pay attention to..." - Diffusion: Sonic Arts Network, review of "Sonic Circuits X" CD _________ "...William Price's "Three Short Pieces for Tape #3", also apparently called "Spline", ... makes one wonder what John Zorn's Godard tribute might have sounded like if he'd had C-Sound and ProTools back in 1985." - Paris Transatlantic Magazine, review of "Sonic Circuits X" CD __________ "....William Price's "Prayer for the Forgotten," performed by the Red Stick Saxophone Quartet, offers harmonies that are warm and solemn... Then the piece moves gradually into more unsettled territory, which sounds striking after the chorale-like beginnings. ...also represented by "Sans Titre II," ...the piece is a nine-minute [saxophone] solo, it remains intriguing. Price's lines are melodic, pretty, but agitated." - Sequenza 21 Contemporary Music Weekly __________ "...'Remembrance' is a lovely, mournful meditation" - Style Weekly, review of "Masks"