Breaths is a compact, exploratory collection that positions Federico Pozzer at the vanguard of young composers for whom indeterminacy and performer agency are central. Across three distinct works, Pozzer orchestrates interactions between piano, guitar, and small chamber ensembles where the length, quality, and audibility of each musician's breath inform the structure and unfolding of the music. Far from an abstract experiment, the album opens with “Breath II,” a quietly absorbing duet where piano and guitar act as co-conspirators, each player’s inhaling, pausing, and exhaling generating shifting time cycles. Rather than enforce unity, Pozzer welcomes disjunctions - the natural differences in breath length lead to evolving, subtle combinations of notes, making duration and silence as crucial as any melody.

In “Noises,” Pozzer expands the scope and allows environmental sound to seep in - the recording studio’s doors and windows are thrown open, granting the incidental noises of the outside world as much presence as the ensemble. Here, only the pianist’s timing is governed by breathing, while the other musicians respond to ambient cues, constructing a sound field that is porous, gently unpredictable, and at times startlingly organic. Careful restraint avoids clutter; instead, the ensemble finds poise in the weave of controlled chaos and unforced harmony.

Closing the record, “Meetings” rotates leadership among the trio, using audible breaths as cues for collective motion, requiring acute responsiveness and open listening. What unites these pieces is a sense of sonic ecology: each performance embodies an interdependency of breath, space, and musical gesture. The cumulative effect is neither clinical nor whimsical, but grounded and remarkably coherent. Breaths confirms Pozzer as a composer attuned to the subtlest thresholds of music making, proposing that the most profound transformations can arise from the nearly imperceptible and the intimately human.