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"Nerve" Reviews

Perhaps, if children's hands are speaking to their brains during violin practice, they are shouting: "Help! Get me out of here!." I don't know what they're saying when they play with Beatbugs and Music Shapers, but I'll bet they're laughing with pleasure."
New York Times, June 3, 2003

Gil Weinberg's ''Nerve'' for six children, two adult percussionists, and eight networked beatbugs brought down the house with sheer rhythmic exhilaration.
Boston Globe,  April 28, 2003

"Nerve," by Gil Weinberg, in which six older children tossed rhythms back and forth among networked Beatbugs, was more engaging and interactive. Wall street Journal, May 21 2003

Gil Weinberg's ''Nerve,'' created for rhythm computers called ''beatbugs,'' had verve and propulsive energy Boston Herald,  April 28, 200