Tod Machover's Hyperstring Trilogy CD has been receiving extensive praise in the international press and media, and was voted #3 in the WNYC 18th annual New Sounds Listener Poll, spotlighting the best new-music releases of 2003:

Richard Dyer, chief music critic of the Boston Globe, included Machover's Toy Symphony in his Top 10 list of the year's most important musical events:

And Justin Davidson included Toy Symphony on his Newsday list, calling it "a radically wonderful, truly new idea."