Dr. Greg Wilder is a composer, pianist, and music technologist whose work sits at the intersection of human creativity and computational possibility. Trained at the Eastman School of Music, where he completed his doctorate in 2002, he has built a thirty-year practice that refuses the conventional separation between composer, performer, and researcher.
In 2007 he co-founded Orpheus Media Research and developed Clio Music, a machine-listening platform that analyzes harmonic structure, melodic contour, rhythmic pattern, and emotional content directly from audio. Expanding on the music cognition research of Meyer, Lerdahl, Narmour, and Cambouropoulos, Clio was licensed exclusively to Rovi/TiVo/Xperi from 2012 to 2023, where it powered recommendation and discovery systems across tens of millions of tracks, predating the consumer wave of generative music AI by roughly a decade. He continues this line of work through Isomer, an AI-assisted composition system that searches the historical repertoire for hidden patterns satisfying specific emotional expectations, and which functions as a collaborator in his own recent compositional work, including the 2023 album What Was the Question?
As a composer and immersive-audio practitioner, Wilder has created evening-length spatial works in ambisonic and object-based systems, including Music in the Constellation at National Sawdust in New York — a program written specifically for Meyer Sound’s Constellation environment which was described by co-founder Paola Prestini as part of “an almost unlimited palette for sonic creativity, experimentation and inspiration.” His collaborations span theater, dance, film, and animation on stages internationally, with parallel work as half of the electronic duo Doctor Body (with Alison Wilder), a partnership that grew out of a deliberately analog studio practice built around vintage, non-recallable hardware as a check against quantization and computational overreach.
In January 2026 Wilder was appointed Director of Music and Arts at the United Church of Christ in Keene, New Hampshire, the largest UCC congregation in the Monadnock Region. There he has expanded the traditional liturgical repertoire to include film score, electronic music, contemporary concert work, and improvisation alongside the standard hymnody — an approach the Keene Sentinel profiled in April 2026 as bringing “innovative musical experience” to the sanctuary.
Wilder consults internationally on sonic intelligence — AI music generation, recommendation systems, audio applications, and forensic musicology — and shares his thinking publicly through the Too Much Music podcast and an active YouTube channel, both of which examine creativity, music production, education, and the cultural economics of music-making in the age of generative systems. He has taught and lectured at universities across the United States and holds intellectual property in music analysis methods now considered foundational to the field.
He lives and works in Keene, New Hampshire, where his studio — designed around a manual workflow and vintage equipment that resists precision recall and computer integration — is a deliberate counterweight to the computational work he is otherwise known for. When he is not composing, performing, teaching, or consulting, he is most often in the backcountry of New Hampshire, the White Mountains, or the more remote reaches of the United States and Canada.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Dr. Greg Wilder? Dr. Greg Wilder is a composer, pianist, and music technologist based in Keene, NH. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music (2002) and has a thirty-year practice spanning composition, machine listening, spatial audio, and live performance. He co-founded Orpheus Media Research in 2007 and serves as Director of Music and Arts at the United Church of Christ in Keene.
What is Clio Music? Clio Music is a machine-listening platform developed by Greg Wilder and Orpheus Media Research that analyzes harmonic structure, melodic contour, rhythmic pattern, and emotional content directly from audio. It is protected by U.S. Patent No. 8,084,677 and was licensed exclusively to Rovi/TiVo/Xperi from 2012 to 2023, powering recommendation and discovery systems across tens of millions of tracks.
What is Isomer? Isomer is an AI-assisted composition system developed by Greg Wilder (2015–present) that searches the historical music repertoire for hidden patterns satisfying specific emotional expectations. It functions as a creative collaborator in his compositional work, including the 2023 album What Was the Question?
What is Doctor Body? Doctor Body is an electronic duo formed in 2022 by Greg Wilder and Alison Wilder. Their music is experimental, spatial, and analog-rooted. Releases include Misalignment (2024) and Live from the Orgone Accumulator (2022).