Greg Wilder

Tag: contour analysis

  • String Bees

    String Bees

    String Bees is the result of an audio experiment in which a brief piece of spoken dialog was sonically analyzed, transcribed, and then orchestrated by a computer.

    Not all of the dialog analysis was used in the output. The goal was to to generate a single coherent phrase by identifying and extracting only the musically interesting aspects of the dialog sample.

    The video was edited together from a film called “Insects on Flowers” which is freely available from the Moving Image Archive at archive.org.

  • Inferring Meaning from Expectation

    Inferring Meaning from Expectation

    Of all the sublime moments in operatic literature, few surpass “Pur ti miro, pur ti godo” (I gaze at you, I possess you), the final love duet between Nero and Poppea in Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea”.

    This enduring masterpiece aims to represent love’s supreme power over all other forces through the unifying of the couple in unbreakable bonds of love.

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  • Melodic Expectation: A Case Study

    Melodic Expectation: A Case Study

    Due to inherent limitations in our own perceptive and cognitive abilities, we find the anticipation and realization of unexpected events and connections (within certain parameters) extremely satisfying. We subconsciously predict moment-to-moment what’s going to happen next, and to a large degree, the fulfillment and/or denial of these predictions dictates the amount of creative enjoyment we experience.

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