About Composer Greg Wilder

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Standard Bio

I began piano studies at age three and completed my doctorate at Eastman in music composition and piano 26 years later. Between those two milestones, I met George Rochberg, who became an important mentor and friend to me until his passing in 2005.

In 2004 I left university teaching to start a company devoted to the development of music listening and analysis technologies. That work resulted in lectures, publications, patents and a music analy­sis plat­form, called Clio Music, which has been marketed globally by TiVo since 2012. At that time I traded east-coast city life for a quiet home in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Today, in a decidedly 21st-century approach to composition, I write A.I. software (called Isomer) that helps me compose music I otherwise could not imagine. Isomer searches music of the past to discover the hidden musical patterns that satisfy our emotional expectations. From there, I work in collaboration with Isomer to compose new music underpinned by those musical structures — the same types of familiar structures that my mentor George Rochberg felt were so essential to the survival of an emotionally engaging music.

Short Bio

Dr. Greg Wilder is a composer, pianist, and music informatics specialist, whose work has resulted in patents and a music analy­sis plat­form, called Clio Music, which has been marketed by TiVo (TIVO) under exclusive license since 2012. An Eastman-trained composer/pianist, Dr. Wilder collaborates with choreographers, filmmakers, theater directors and animators around the globe as composer, sound designer and audio engineer.

Selected Lectures, Interviews, & Publications

April 2019 — George Rochberg, American composer : personal trauma and artistic creativity (University of Rochester Press) Interview contributions (Ch. 5)

March 2015 — Composition in the Digital World: Conversations with 21st Century American Composers (Oxford University Press) In depth interviews with leading composers of contemporary classical music (pp. 295-305)

November 2014 — National Public Radio (NPR) (Radio Broadcast: Here & Now) National radio interview focused on the Isomer Project and its implications

January 2013 — “Model-Based Approaches to Computation Creativity: The Architecture of Isomer” Drexel University: Music Entertainment and Technology Laboratory, Philadelphia, PA

November 2012 — “Computational Creativity: Teaching Computers to Listen”
Dickinson College: Music and Computer-Science Departments, Carlisle, PA

December 2011 — U.S. Patent No. 8,084,677 (US8084677)
“System and Method for Adaptive Segmentation and Motivic Identification”

November 2009 — “How Automated Musical Analysis will Shape the Future of the Music Industry”
New York University: Music and Audio Research Laboratory, New York, NY

August 2008 — “Adaptive Melodic Segmentation and Motivic Identification”
Queen’s University: Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, Ireland

February 2008 — “Parsing Musical Language: An Automated Approach”
Vanderbilt University: Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Nashville, TN

March 2006 — “Toward an Automated System of Model-Based Composition”
Eastman School of Music: ECMC 25th Anniversary Celebration, Rochester, NY

Selected Awards & Honors