Joanna Ward (1998-)
One, Breathe

Newton Armstrong
Two Canons for Kathryn

Patrick Ellis (1994-)
Breath, Patterns, Bends

Megan Grace Beugger (1987-)
Asthmatic inhalation & exhalation

Angela Elizabeth Slater
A Moments Breath

Jack Sheen (1993-)
(it's really you strolling by)

Matthew Welton
Poem in a single breath

Daisy Ellen Holden
Waves

Chaya Czernowin (1957-)
breating etude I

Jenny Jackson
Expel

Nina Whiteman
Thread

John Aulich (1992-)
Just a different wolf

Laurie Tompkins
Bistro Legende

Stephen Chase
Feet. Can't. Fail. (slight return)

Charlotte Marlowe & Chrissie Pinney
Breathless

Cee Haines (1990-)
DOOO

Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian (1986-)
Breathing Up

Emilia Williams
Gerbil Behaviour

Amber Priestly
It involves beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk

Andy Ingamells & Kathryn Williams
Aquafifer (after Hermeto Pascoal)

Larry Goves (1980-)
Air Pressure (after Bruce Nauman)

Ewan Campbell
Polar Vortex

Lucio Tasca
One breath

Mark Dyer
Memento for Kathryn (and being able to hold that forever)

Lucy Hale
When we breathe

David Pocknee
Gray Winter Grimes

Scott McLaughlin
Like skipping stones on a lake

Lauren Marshall (2000-)
SUCK/BLOW

Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh & Kathryn Williams
PIXERCISE 1

Max Erwin
Inventory

Lavender Rodriguez
I didn't say that he did

Alex Bonney (1978-)
Resonant Ripples

Mary Bellamy
Atom

Robert Crehan
Save Your Breath

Eleanor Cully
Snow geese

Oliver Coates & chrysanthemum bear
Leif

Mauricio Pauly & Gabriel Montagné
H-Yodo Draft 4

Brian Ferneyhough (1943-)
excerpt, Unity Capsule (Senza misura, page 19, third system, to the end)

Sarah Hennies (1979-)
Packing it in

Vitalija Glovackyte
Untitled

Kathryn Williams, flûte

For many composers—Bach, Handel and Mozart among them—the fact that woodwind players need to breathe from tme to tme appears to be an inconvenience, an unwanted interrupton to the long-flowing line, the contnuous stream of actvity. Breath breaks, becomes a barrier. But what if breathing itself was part of the music, rather than one of many hidden mechanisms that make it happen? Flautst Kathryn Williams has faced chronic respiratory conditons which caused the connectons between her body, breath and musical expression to be severed. A successful sinus operaton in 2016 enabled her to resume her performance career and Coming Up For Air began as a response to her recovery. Kathryn was forced to approach her performances one breath at a tme, so single-breath pieces were able to demonstrate some of the ways she was able to sttch these relatonships back together. The result is an ever-growing body of work that has proven to be therapeutc, both musically and physically.This album collects 40 different responses to one straightorward queston: what can be communicated in a single breath? This limitaton has inspired a wide range of approaches—some composers have contributed a melody, some have foregrounded a physiological challenge, others have offered a single sound, and others stll have created their own playful exceptons to the prompt. The contributons are from composers of all ages, backgrounds and levels of experience. The youngest composer represented is just eight years old, and the album brings together aesthetcally diverse artsts including Chaya Czernowin, Oliver Coates, Amber Priestley, Andy Ingamells, Larry Goves, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Newton Armstrong, Mary Bellamy, Stephen Chase, Sarah Hennies, Mauricio Pauly, and Brian Ferneyhough, who is represented here by the brief excerpt from Unity Capsule that provided the original inspiraton for the project.