For two violins, viola and violoncello.

"hoffingerquartett (2005) is scored for string quartet, but is presented on this disc in an "electronic realisation" by Malfatti himself, in which samples of each instrument are painstakingly sequenced by computer to create a virtual quartet. The score of the piece consists of a list of precise timings that exist as windows within the digital silence into which Malfatti places his sounds, dry layers of bowed wood that sound more like a passing underground train than any traditional string quartet. The timings seem to be based on a simple mathematical structure whereby the durations of the sounds and the silences between them are defined by the score to form recognisable patterns. The cold harshness of the sound itself is amplified by the clinical manner in which it begins and ends." | Richard Pinnell, Paris Transatlantic