Now on Dr. Greg Wilder

The Clearing

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A non-denominational sound environment at UCC Keene, featuring 90 minutes of live, slow-moving spatial music for deep listening and rest.

Pentecost Sunday

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Programming notes for Pentecost Sunday at UCC Keene, featuring Philip Glass, Judee Sill, and African American spirituals.

The Promise of the Helper

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Programming notes for a service exploring the Paraclete, featuring Chopin, Tallis, Leonard Cohen, and Paul Simon.

Ascension Sunday

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Programming notes for Ascension Sunday at UCC Keene, exploring themes of departure, trust, and the Great Commission through a blend of classical, contemporary, and popular repertoire.

A House of Living Stones

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Programming notes for a service exploring the church as a living structure, featuring the Keene State Saxophone Ensemble and the premiere of ‘Musica Lapidum’.

Music's Cultural Payload

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

An exploration of how music theory, cognitive science, and machine listening intersect to define the ‘hidden soul’ of musical identity.

Music as Data: Understanding Our Sonic World

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

An exploration of why music cognition operates outside of language systems, and the technical challenges of segmenting music for intelligent AI systems.

Examples vs. Ideas: The Ghost in the Machine

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Exploring the distinction between statistical prediction and genuine creative inspiration, and why the future of AI art lies in a machine’s ability to produce ‘disorder’.

The Search for Universal Musical Value

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

An exploration of how cultural evolution and cognitive constraints shape musical value, and why these ‘musical memes’ are essential for developing intelligent AI systems.

AI That Understands Why Music is Beautiful

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

An investigation into how we can translate the ’timeless patterns’ of musical expectation, tension, and resolution into code for AI systems that resonate.

What Was the Question?

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A collection of compositions spanning 2017–2022 that explores the dialogue between human creativity and AI-generated material, bridging work from my doctoral studies to modern spatial audio experiments.

Doctor Body

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Doctor Body is an electronic duo with Alison Wilder. Part shimmering sonic collage, part experimental dream pop fantasy. Raw, indie-inspired music for connoisseurs.

Music in the Constellation

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A sold-out, evening-length performance at National Sawdust using a 102-speaker Meyer Sound Constellation system, exploring how spatial movement functions as a fundamental compositional parameter.

Isomer Software

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Based on the idea that creativity is pattern recognition and transformation, Isomer is software designed to augment human creativity by discovering hidden patterns in historical music and using them as creative starting points.

Spatial Audio Research

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

An ongoing investigation into immersive sound systems, exploring how spatial movement functions as a fundamental compositional parameter across systems ranging from Dolby Atmos to 102-speaker arrays.

Clio Music

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

My patented machine-listening technology was licensed exclusively to Rovi/TiVo/Xperi from 2012 to 2023 and powered media recommendation and discovery systems across tens of millions of tracks, predating the consumer wave of generative music AI by roughly a decade.

Vampyr (1932) Score LIVE!

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

A new solo score for Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 horror classic, exploring the intersection of spectral sound design and early cinematic expressionism.

About

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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?

Studio

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The room

The current studio sits in Keene, New Hampshire — a working room organized around several stations so that any instrument is reachable inside the span of a single idea. Nothing is stored away. Nothing needs to be patched in before it can be played.

A thought can travel from hand to recording in under a minute, which turns out to matter more than any piece of equipment in the room. Mobile recording rigs make it possible to capture moments wherever they happen — the music does not have to wait for the studio to be ready.

The Clearing

musicwalnut@proton.me (Dr. Greg Wilder) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

An occasional pause for live ambient music and the people who need it. UCC Keene, opening summer solstice 2026.

What it is

The Clearing is an occasional non-denominational sound environment held in the chapel of the United Church of Christ in Keene, New Hampshire. 90 minutes of live, slow-moving music — composed and improvised in the room, in real time — meant for deep listening, rest, and one another’s company.