Laure M. Hiendl: For Piano Trio

‘The opulence, the opulence of the body that neither begs nor needs’

(from: Clarice Lispector: The Passion According to G.H.)

 

For Piano Trio translates digital sampling techniques into acoustic chamber music. A fragment, a gesture, is isolated, repeated, broken down and shifted–until communication begins to break down. What remains is not failure, but an interstice: a zone of ambiguity in which meaning remains in flux and time loses its linear direction.

 

The subtitle is taken from Clarice Lispector’s *The Passion, based on G.H.» She speaks of a physicality that transcends the individual: „an abundance that is older than us, that neither asks for nor needs anything–and on which we can nevertheless rely. The foreign element within us, to which we may surrender.« In Lispector’s work, the living is made of the most delicate material, and physical energy appears as the most delicate of all.

 

Thus, the piece does not seek the precision of a machine, but rather a state of suspension in which a sound unfolds without demanding anything. Lingering on the fragment becomes a gesture of trust–in the exuberance of the body, in failure as a form.