was commissioned by the Telluride Chamber Music Festival and the Ives String Quartet. In 2014, Pollack premiered a new composition for orchestra entitled Night Flower at the Mendocino Music Festival. 2015 – 2018 In 2015, Pollack began exploring his interest in electronic music, synthesizers, sounds design and production, releasing music under the moniker "J3PO." The name came from his trio mate Evan Hughes: “He called me up one day and randomly left me a voicemail starting with ‘Hey J3PO’ – and ever since then that was my alter-ego music nickname. What’s cool is that if you look at the logo (designed by Emily Hoerdemann) the ‘3’ is actually a ‘w’ on its side. So you have J.W.PO which are my initials in addition to referencing the droid C3PO from ‘Star Wars,’ which I love.” He released The 90s EP in 2016, a collection of nineties pop songs re-harmonized, rearranged, and sung on the talkbox. In 2017 he released three original songs in the same vein, entitled Memory EP. Starting in 2016 Pollack joined New York's celebrated Lower East Side underground hip-hop band The Lesson GK, a weekly jam session that seamlessly blends elements of experimental Hip-Hop, Jazz, Funk and Soul. In 2018 he began touring with legendary bassist and composer, Marcus Miller, joining his residency at The Blue Note Tokyo, and continuing on for several tours of the United States and Europe. 2019 – Present In 2019, Julian (as J3PO) released his album Small Plates, a collection of 12 tracks that range from simple lo-fi beats to complex jazztronica future house joints. Inspired by analog synths and sample-based music, the album fuses Julian's love for today's contemporary production styles with a nod to the jazz tradition and the spontaneity of live music and improvisation. He began working closely with Clavia Nord Keyboards, designing a signature patch library for the Nord Stage 3. He also released a signature pack for the Nord Wave 2. In 2020, Julian scored the indie film The Sound of the Wind, directed and written by Jared Douglas. Julian was part of the sound design team to create patches for the new Prophet 5 reissue from Sequential. During the Coronavirus pandemic, Julian released a free bank of sounds for the Disco DSP synthesizer OB-Xd. In 2021, Julian was asked to create presets for the Softube Model 84 Polyphonic Synthesizer which is a circuit-modeled emulation of a 1984