L’Union libre is a piece based on Andre Breton’s poem with the same title. I wanted L’Union libre to be a chaotic field of aural information that would overwhelm the listener by continuously challenging perceptional modes. The extremely fragmented texture may be experienced differently by each listener who may dive into the information field and find different things buried inside, such as ”hair of burning splinters” or ”the back of the bird in vertical flight”. The piece is freely inspired by Breton’s technique of arranging a large variety of disparate words into a continuous series of simple but highly imaginative metaphors. Lefteris Papadimitriou is a Greek composer and performer. He is currently studying for a PhD in composition at the University of Huddersfield with the support of a scholarship from the Huddersfield contemporary music festival and the Centre of Research in New Music. He has written many compositions for acoustic instruments and electronic media that have been performed in various countries and also performs live electronic and improvised music.
