Antoine Beuger: flute
Jürg Frey: clarinet
Radu Malfatti: trombone
Eva Reiter: contrabass-recorder

For flute, clarinet, contra-bass-recorder and trombone.

"2004's zeitschatten for clarinet and cello is also heard in an electronic realisation made two years later, but 2005's friedrichschofquartett features the instruments it was written for – flute, clarinet, trombone and contrabass recorder – played by Malfatti's colleagues from the Wandelweiser Group, Antoine Beuger, Jürg Frey and Eva Reiter. Even so a degree of post-production remains evident in the recording as the silences in the music are inserted digitally, depriving the recording of any Cageian room noise and creating a confusing, unnatural feel to the piece that further challenges the listener's ideas of what music is and how it should sound. The score calls for subtle changes in the individual sounding events, but these remain barely noticeable as the extended silences cause the mind to re-evaluate its memory of the preceding events. Appropriately, several of the b-boim discs come with brief koan-like quotations from Malfatti's old friend Francis Brown. "If no sound is being created, can the memory of previous sound be interrupted?" "How many dimensions does sound have?" "Does the mind stop listening between sounds?"" | Richard Pinnell, Paris Tranatlantic