Greg Wilder

Tag: video

  • Doctor Body

    Doctor Body

    Doctor Body is a place for musical experimentation, boundary exploration, and live performance expression.

    It’s an ongoing musical collaboration between myself and Alison Wilder. Key to the process is this: everything we produce is handled/managed by each of us multiple times.

    The result is always something neither one of us would (or could) create. Eventually we find our way to an agreeable place and allow each other space to contribute what we wish. And the more we do it, the more comfortable we become in what is often an uncertain journey.

    … or said in a very different way …

    “Doctor Body will not help you to relive the warm glow of youthful love, or to remember how you danced on your wedding night, or be the soundtrack to your breakup.”

    Your millage may vary.

  • From the Depths

    From the Depths

    From the Depths is a short work created for the wonderfully dark and ponderous sound of the Contrabass flute.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.