Greg Wilder

Category: Composition

List of compositions by composer Greg Wilder. Many works in the catalog were co-created with AI software.

  • Moment of First Awakening

    Moment of First Awakening

    Moment of First Awakening (2012) is an audio-visual collaboration between musician/video artist Alison Conard and composer Greg Wilder.

    In the spring of 1985, conductor Clive Wearing suffered from a virus that attacked his brain’s ability to form short-term memories. He was left with less than 2 minutes of recall at any given time.

    To this day, Clive keeps a journal in a stilted attempt to record his existence:

    • 8:31 AM: Now I am really, completely awake.
    • 9:06 AM: Now I am perfectly, overwhelmingly awake.
    • 9:34 AM: Now I am superlatively, actually awake.

    Clive lives in a perpetual state of temporary standby. His entire awareness is limited to a tiny window of time — a momentary gap that creates for him a continuous moment of first awakening.

  • Infernum

    Infernum

    While Infernum is a pure electronic work, its surface texture recalls acoustic instruments in real spaces — transformed and heightened in ways only possible through digital means.

    Fleeting moments of nervous calm alternate with a terrifying wall of brass glissandi (up to 60 trombones!), creating the effect of a fear-response oscillating between the conscious and subconscious.

    The video was assembled from footage and animations made available by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.

  • Vyšehrad

    Vyšehrad

    April 2002 | Fixed Media, Stereo

    Vyšehrad was completed at the end of my doctoral studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.

  • Portrait of a Lady

    Portrait of a Lady

    April 1998 | Fixed Media, Stereo

    Portrait of a Lady was completed at the end of my masters studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.