Barganier’s universe is fully abrasive. The tangibility of the music is striking: it’s a sensory explosion of scratches, electronic manipulations, turbulent violins." - Vanessa Ague, The Road to Sound
"Loads of sonic personality in... the strangled stridulations of Barganier's The Veneer Melts," - Jeremy Shatan, An Earful
"For the guitarist or instrumentalist seeking inspiration to venture outside the box of 'palatable' music into more forward and adventurous territories, Barganier's Geisslerlieder is a masterful demonstration of how to challenge the conventions of popular, established musical norms." - Jacob Johnson + Eldar Tagi + Ryan Gaston, Perfect Circuit
"Folx Percussion joins Dice for Erich Barganier’s Smokestacks and Angel Dust, which begins in a music box and ends in street fight" - Jeremy Shatan, An Earful
Deep, pithy, and visceral, [A Drunk Man Will Find His Way Home, But A Drunk Bird May Get Lost Forever] is full of rich tone and dynamism. A rollercoaster ride without being excessively chaotic, the graphics in the score are interpreted masterfully in this performance to create an exciting sweep of high and low energies. The score must have been a monster to create. The unification of traditional and graphic notation is constant, and I can only imagine the time involved to create it. But, the result is truly worth the effort of engraving. - Dan Lis, Composer's Toolbox
"Une écoute obligatoire si vous êtes avides d’expérimentations de grande qualité!" - William, MEFD
"Like Horses, the introductory work by Barganier, opens with the electronic hum of a guitar amp. Soon, a gentle guitar ostinato enters followed by a velvety clarinet melody. Slight hints of electronic processing and subtle delay effects on the clarinet grow into a delightful garden of glitch effects that quickly spreads throughout the texture." - Derek Emch, International Clarinet Association
"Exploring an indie-classical sound... the collection of new music cracks open the classical mold." - Natasha Nelson, Classicyl Vine "An album like Erich Barganier's A House of Last Witnesses is not music you put on in the background as you wash dishes or study geography. It is an album which you take time out of your day to sit down with, to absorb into your experience. You let the motions of its sound environments spawn new perspectives in your imagination. You allow it to rub up against distant memories, igniting associations with parts of yourself which you thought had been lost long ago." - Forest Muran, VONYCO
“Fading out” (Erich Barganier) è un pezzo ambient più canonico e minimale, à la Eno, in cui via via le note si ripetono e confondono (o siamo noi ad essere sempre più confusi?)" - Pablito El Drito, (A)ntimuzak
"'I’m still having waterbug problems' is an unnerving and discombobulating movement paced by muted beats and replete with the crying of a bowed instrument that makes us feel like we’re trapped in that cold, dark, eerie place Eleven always goes to in Stranger Things." - Ray Roa, Creative Loafing
"Barganier’s twinkling instrumental work...made the room move like an underwater ballet" - Bao Le-Huu, Orlando Weekly
"I have not seen a group as supreme [as backlined collective] since Godspeed reunited for the first time in 2011. It was a happening that I felt privileged to have experienced. There is no question that musicians can rearrange you at the molecular level and, ultimately, change the way you experience reality." - Ryan Diduck, Niche MTL
"Barganier’s work conjured imagery of erratic and frenetic motion, seamlessly integrating musical narrative with sonic texture," - Tina Qian, Duke Chronicle