…an enjoyable release that builds a lasting bridge between electroacoustic and acoustic music…

Perhaps unique to this installment of Selected Compositions, the track order takes on a concept album– like structure that incorporates an alternating thread of brief, palate- cleansing, almost entirely silent works

Music that operates on the edge of silence: Thomas DeLio’s world is an elusive, refractive one. My colleague Mike Silverton, writing in Fanfare 16:1 back in 1992 talks of DeLio’s relationship with silence in the piece Against the Silence (written 1985/6, for percussion and four-channel computer-generated tape)…

space/image/word/sound II offers a rich journey through two-years' worth (2014-2015) of Thomas DeLio's purely electroacoustic creations for computer-generated sound and processed poetry. DeLio seems to have made music that conceptualizes sound as objects in space, more like a visual artist might…

…[DeLio’s] output includes seven books as author and/or editor and many essays in academic journals. Analytical Studies is the first book in a projected two-volume project for Mellen Press that collects his essays…

… Little did I know then how important that composition would become; nor how highly I would come to regard DeLio's entire compositional body of work. He is, as I've written elsewhere, "among the most significant experimental composers of his generation."…

… This album displays DeLio’s intense focus on sonic materials by placing acoustic works next to electroacoustic works, which the composer calls “deconstructions”, in which the he reframes the acoustic materials into a more exacting perspective…

…it was the world premiere of Thomas DeLio’s “sound/shivering/silence II” that provided some of the most sublime music of the evening…

…Thomas DeLio is one such composer for whom this expansive sense of musical sound, and the consequently catholic sonic palette to which it gives rise, opened a field in which his own practice could flourish…

…Thomas DeLio, just the kind of young composer I liked to work with, who in turn introduced me to a recent composition of his, Against the silence ... (1985). It is a piece that I regard as one of the great percussion compositions of that decade and a real turning point in the history of experimental music…

In the Introduction to his book Circumscribing The Open Universe (University Press of America, 1984), Thomas DeLio makes the case that in contrast to the conventional type of “closed” art in which the artist has a singular point of view to express and creates a work (or object) that fulfills that vision and requires the audience to understand its experience of the artwork from the artist’s perspective…

In his collection of five analytical essays, DeLio closely examines five open-form works by five composers - Cage, Feldman, Christian Wolff, Robert Ashley, and Alvin Lucier.  The author links these composers by their aesthetic credo that artwork is not a fixed entity but a process, not a "circumscribed object" but a "circumscribing event."  ... his essays are among the most extensive and finest analyses of open-form works ever written.  DeLio's book is one of the few monographs devoted entirely to aleatoric music.

This DVD features music by six composers: Thomas DeLio, Thomas Licata, Agostino Di Scipio, Kristian Twombly, Kees Tazelaar and Linda Dusman, whose works were created between 2004 and 2008 and represent a broad range of technical and aesthetic approaches. This diversity and the overall quality of each piece make the disc delightful to hear…

A revealing look at the artistic and theoretical output of Thomas DeLio whose original compositions, books, and essays are innovative, wide-ranging and wholly provocative. Through essays written by and in tribute to this composer and theorist his contribution to music is more thoroughly appreciated and understood. Post includes review by Benjamin Levy.

MUSIC/TEXT II, Capstone Records’ second release of text-based pieces, presents a rich and diverse compilation of works that, like the first, continues to address and explore the setting of text in a contemporary musical idiom…

…For two decades, Mr. DeLio has explored the effects and possibilities of isolating sounds within a work, primarily by using long silences between events…

This excellent Neuma CD is a must-have for the collector who takes a particular interest in new music's electroacoustic possibilities. Both James Dashow and Thomas Delio are consummate computer-studio craftsmen and imaginative artists of sharply contrasting temperaments…

 ...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.