Inherited from pop and electro culture, new development techniques now belong to the toolbox of composers of classical culture: loops, samples, patterns.

Chronochromatic Variations III is a late romantic evocation. Laure M. Hiendl uses melodies from a string trio by Anglo-Irish composer E.J. Moeran (1894-1950) that have been cut up, looped, edited and put back together. The result is in Hiendl’s words ‘an animated still life’: a suspension of sound that hints at a nostalgy towards the English pastoral but unnerves us under the surface in its execution.

Pastel tones, floating figures, random romantic chords, bubble to the surface of our recollections. Like that of Joanna Bailie or Cassandra Miller, the music of Hiendl works on reminiscence and the memorable, rather than on direct quotation.

This work is in step with the new cognitive studies and the concept of Brain: a music that exposes the mechanisms of memory, a music which is memory itself, captured in its ceaseless creative work. It's both melancholic and totally exciting.