"New York Eye and Ear Control" is Canadian artist Michael Snow's 1964 film with a soundtrack of group improvisations recorded by an augmented version of Albert Ayler's group and released as the album "New York Eye and Ear Control". Critics have compared the album with the key free jazz recordings: Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation" and John Coltrane's "Ascension". John Litweiler regards it favourably in comparison because of its "free motion of tempo (often slow, usually fast); of ensemble density (players enter and depart at will); of linear movement". Ekkehard Jost places it in the same company and comments on "extraordinarily intensive give-and-take by the musicians" and "a breadth of variation and differentiation on all musical levels".