Davies's Neon is the most striking of the pieces, lucidly structured with its friezelike series of vivid musical events each generated by a different rhythmic figure or process, and the most substantial is Stuart MacRae's Interact, a two movement trumpet concerto in which the solo instrument encounters different groups within the large ensemble in turn.

None of the pieces onthe second disc has quite the same individuality, though Morgan Hayes's Dark Room and the spatial effects of Dai Fujikura's Fifth Station both contain some high-octane instrumental writing.