composer ben vida, fellow member of the band town & county with joshua abrams back in the day, wrote about mandatory reality for bomb magazine. "Form evaporates & one is left to scan the sound, to play with perception & explore the granular. It is through duration that performance can morph into ceremony. & it is in ceremony that we find durational music at its most functional & epic. When people gather to make music collectively, with the heartfelt intention of producing that space of ceremony, something ecstatic happens."