Four Breaths

Breath is the rhythm of consciousness and unconsciousness. It is a continuum of being, yet marked by fleeting instants. For me, four breaths form a complete arc, each one is a distinct cycle of movement and stillness. The moment of inhalation or exhalation becomes the decisive threshold of the cycle - revealing phases of steadiness, tremor, glide, and pulse. My intention is to capture these subtle moments of transformation, to amplify them in time and space.

What I seek in this work is a “perceived breath”, an amplified listening of the consciousness to time, space and uncertainty.

Four Breaths, for piano quintet, was composed in the summer of Fontainebleau, 2025.