Year: 2025

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Billy Pickus - trombone
Deniz Aslan - electronics

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17 April 2024

The University of Texas at Austin

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​​Behind Those Eyes is a product of a close collaboration between the composer and the performer. It is a site-specific improvisation written to be performed in front of Tras los ojos, a work by Eamon Ore-Giron. The improvisation, guided structurally and conceptually based on Tras los ojos, makes use of not only the work itself, but also the physical space in which it is located: its relationship with light, its size, and different vantage points in the space from where the artwork can be seen. By processing the trombone sound in real time, as its sound is manipulated and distributed in the space through multiple loudspeakers positioned in a 3D setup, it is aimed to (re)construct a hyper-real spatial perception of the entire space for the audience.