MuSE x Juilliard::Building for Artists

​Panel with Edward Bilous, Founding Director of the Center for Creative Technology at The Juilliard School; William David Fastenow, Director of Technology at the CCT; and Dan Freeman, Associate Arts Professor at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute.

​Edward Bilous scored the Academy Award-nominated documentary Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, composed for HBO, PBS, and Saturday Night Live, and worked with The Who and Sinéad O’Connor before founding Juilliard’s technology center. William Fastenow designs the performance technology behind Juilliard’s multimedia productions, including a concert played simultaneously by orchestras in Tianjin and New York. Dan Freeman has performed electronic music at Berghain, Sónar, and SXSW and runs the digital music production minor at Clive Davis.

​What do working artists need from the people who build their tools? The panelists discuss how technology enters their work, where it falls short, and what they would build if they could. Ed is also developing an AI-powered platform for creating, discovering, licensing, and adapting human-made music, and he is taking on a small team of engineers and designers to build it with him. The panelists are staying afterward, so come introduce yourself. No background needed. Panel and Q&A, open to all of NYU.