NEW YORK – Juilliard’s Center for Innovation in the Arts, under the direction of Edward Bilous, presents Beyond the Machine 16.2: eVirtuosos on Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26, 2016, at 7:30pm in Juilliard’s Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater.
The program features original works by Juilliard students and outside composers: Andy Clausen’s Austerity Measures; Mariam Machaidze’s Transformation; Saad Haddad’s Shifting Sands; Ruaridh Pattison’s Liittatllye; Steve Mackey’s Physical Property; Guitar Trio by Jack Frere, Jack Gulielmetti, and Robert Volkman; Brand Illaw’s Tracks; Trevor Bumgarner’s FluteStep; Theo Van Dyck’s Lament; Brandon Ilaw’s Tracks; Trevor Bumgarner’s FluteStep; and Trust Meby Jordan James, Jack Gulielmetti, Jeremy Smith, and Jack Ferrer.
Tickets for $10 are available at events.juilliard.edu.
Tickets are free for Juilliard students; non-Juilliard students may purchase tickets for $5.
About Juilliard’s Center for Innovation in the Arts
The Center for Innovation in the Arts at Juilliard, (formerly the Music Technology Center), was created in 1993 to provide students with the opportunity to use technology in the creation and performance of new works. Since then the program has expanded to include classes in music production, film scoring, and performance technology.
In 2009, the Music Technology Center moved to a new, state-of-the-art facility that includes a record and mix suite to support music production activities and a digital playroom with interactive performance technology. The Center’s performance activities take place in the Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater, which was designed with Beyond the Machine events in mind, and features a variety of interactive audio, lighting and computer systems. In 2012 the Music Technology Center was renamed the Center for Innovation in the Arts to reflect the growing opportunities for students in all divisions to collaborate on innovative projects. Together with the Willson Theater, the Center is the home for interdisciplinary (InterArts) and technology-driven activities at Juilliard.
Beyond the Machine is a multimedia performance environment offering young musicians, actors, and dancers the opportunity to bring their creative ideas to life with new technology. Begun in 2001 as a festival of interdisciplinary and multimedia art, Beyond the Machine’s biannual performance programs feature collaborations with creative artists from around the world who share an interest in new media and interdisciplinary work. Using innovative performance technology, the programs allow artists to expand the range of their instruments, control audio and visual elements with electronic tools, shape video and projection design in real time, and interact with artists and computers around the world via the web.
About Edward Bilous, Director of Juilliard’s Center for Innovation in the Arts, Artistic Director for Beyondthe Machine, and a member of Juilliard’s Faculty
Edward Bilous, a Juilliard faculty member since 1984, developed many of Juilliard’s most innovative programs, including the Arts and Education program, the Music Technology Center, and the Center for Innovation in the Arts. In 2012 he was awarded the William Schuman Scholars Chair. Mr. Bilous served on the National Endowment for the Arts panel for Learning in the Arts, the Lincoln Center Institute, and ACJW (senior education advisor). His creative works include Basetrack Live, five compositions for Pilobolus, Lucid Dreams (American Composers Orchestra), and the scores for Scottsboro, Portraits of Grief, and The Emperor of All Maladies
(Ken Burns). Mr. Bilous earned his M.M. and D.M.A. from Juilliard, where he studied composition with Elliott Carter and Vincent Persichetti. He also studied privately with Krzystof Penderecki.
