“...she created both an exquisite acoustic-electronic soundtrack (as composer) and visuals (as filmmaker). (about Powerlines film and music)”

“Helen Hall describes the sound for her film Powerlines as drone music, based on the sixty-cycle hum. Her soundtrack ingeniously combines instrumental minimalism and soundscape composition.”

“On the other-worldly Circuits, composed by Helen Hall, La Barbara produced a constant hum of audible, pitched breathing.”

“Notable among the concerts involving scored music was New Brunswick soprano Helen Pridmore's performance of Montreal composer Helen Hall's 'Circuits'....Pridmore's measured exploration of the cyclical process of breathing contained an extraordinary resonance of endurance and renewal.”

“Soprano Helen Pridmore achieved a tour de force in Helen Hall's difficult Circuits. Her interpretation...was quite beautiful.”

“...her music for the film, which takes up most of the CD that accompanies the magazine, is...gorgeous...it's simple archaisms, reminiscent of Arvo Pärt, mark a new (to me) and welcome phase in Hall's artistic development. (about music for Powerlines)”

“Helen Hall's Rites of Decimation, given its world première, was this concert's hit, a dramatic, sprawling piece that went from gallop to lurch as it displayed the composer's confidence in handling the band's many resources on a grand scale...”

“Helen Hall's Circuits asked Ms La Barbara to execute circular singing, essentially pitched breathing, with taped vocal tracks lending euphonious support.”

“The most complex work was Of Radiant Streams by Helen Hall, whose score calls on four very busy percussionists, one of whom eventually produced a heavy-duty chain and scraped it over surfaces in an exploration of timbre.”