Alison Tells Greg What to Do - Composition Challenge Pt. 1

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National Geographic photographer and conservationist Jaime Rojo has spent decades capturing the beauty and fragility of the monarch butterfly. Their epic migration is one of nature’s most breathtaking spectacles, but their survival is under threat. In this episode, Jaime shares how his passion for photography and conservation led him to document the monarchs’ journey. He and host Brian Lowery discuss the deeper story behind his award-winning images, one about resilience, connection, and the urgent need to protect our natural world. See Jaime's story on the monarch butterflies at his website: rojovisuals.com , and follow Brian Lowery at knowwhatyousee.com .…

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Alison Tells Greg What to Do - Composition Challenge Pt. 1

Too Much Music

published 3 years ago

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11 episodes

#Theater #Arts #Alison and Greg Wilder #Greg Wilder #Music #Computational Creativity #Music Production #Music Ai #Composition #Music Performance #Music Makes

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Show Me the Live Show! 54:27

40 weeks ago54:27

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Coming at ya with a show about live performance: the gear we use, how we think about it, and what we're planning for the future. Covered topics include Alison's live Bitwig and/or Ableton setup using the Ableton Push 3 and various mixers, Greg's spatial audio work, their 2023 live setup for Blix Byrd, and...Justin Bieber?!? Doctor Body is Alison & Greg's experimental electronic duo. PatternSonix is Alison & Greg's niche consulting firm focusing on the intersection between sound and AI. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or check us out at toomuchmusicpodcast.com Music, blogging, & more from your hosts: Dr. Greg Wilder | Alison Wilder…

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Who ARE these people, anyway?! 43:40

1 year ago43:40

43:40

Greg and Alison are back...to talk about themselves! In this episode, they'll tell you about how they met, why they're not still married, and what things are like today. Don't worry, you'll hear plenty of music talk along the way. Doctor Body is Alison & Greg's experimental electronic duo. PatternSonix is Alison & Greg's niche consulting firm focusing on the intersection between sound and AI. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or check us out at toomuchmusicpodcast.com Music, blogging, & more from your hosts: Dr. Greg Wilder | Alison Wilder…

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How to Define Musical Identity for Humans & AI Systems 1:08:34

1 year ago1:08:34

1:08:34

Alison & Greg talk about how we hear, understand, and define the identity of a piece of music. After a bit of a dive into the great music thinkers of the 20th and 21st century and their work on how our minds hear and process music, they jump into the specifics of what musical parameters go into identity, and how we can define and codify those parameters so that they're available to an AI system. Doctor Body is Alison & Greg's experimental electronic duo. PatternSonix is Alison & Greg's niche consulting firm focusing on the intersection between sound and AI. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or check us out at toomuchmusicpodcast.com Music, blogging, & more from your hosts: Dr. Greg Wilder | Alison Wilder…

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How Do Computers Match Musical Sounds? 52:15

1 year ago52:15

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Today we take a look back at the music technology underpinning a startup co-founded by our hosts in the early 2010s. With the motto "Use Music to Find Music" , Clio Music was perhaps the first commercially available search engine to speak the language of music and has been a part of TiVo since 2012. Listen in as our intrepid hosts share insights from that experience as well as ways they see this technology playing an important role in the future of music AI. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or check us out at https://www.toomuchmusicpodcast.com/ More from your lovely hosts: Greg: https://gregwilder.com Alison: https://alisonwilder.net/ Doctor Body is Alison & Greg's experimental electronic duo. PatternSonix is Alison & Greg's niche consulting firm focusing on the intersection between sound and AI. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or check us out at toomuchmusicpodcast.com Music, blogging, & more from your hosts: Dr. Greg Wilder | Alison Wilder…

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Music as Information: What Gets Lost? 46:12

1 year ago46:12

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Where does music live? Is it the sound in the room? Is it in your brain? Or maybe it lives on paper? In order to repeat it, we need to create systems to write it down, and ultimately represent music as information or data. But what gets lost when we do this? Writing music down seems straightforward enough. But as we’ll see, the process of reducing the rich experience of music to dots on paper isn’t as simple as jotting down a grocery list or even writing down your innermost thoughts about last night’s dreams. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or check us out at https://www.toomuchmusicpodcast.com/ More from your lovely hosts: Greg: https://gregwilder.com Alison: https://alisonwilder.net/ Doctor Body is Alison & Greg's experimental electronic duo. PatternSonix is Alison & Greg's niche consulting firm focusing on the intersection between sound and AI. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or check us out at toomuchmusicpodcast.com Music, blogging, & more from your hosts: Dr. Greg Wilder | Alison Wilder…

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Art vs. Pop Music Smackdown - Pt. 2 54:29

2 years ago54:29

54:29

The first sign that the Wilder marriage might be in trouble happened before the wedding : it was a knock-down, drag-out fight about whether there's a fundamental difference between music in the European art music tradition and music in the American blues tradition. (We can all agree that this is a severely nerdy topic to fight about.) Eventually, after years of testy conversation, Alison conceded on this one -- Greg and Alison now agree, they're different. But how? This two (maybe three?!)-part episode delves into the specific traits and characteristics that make art music and pop music different from each other. Part one focused on the musical characteristics, while part two dives into culturally-driven differences. Greg's website: https://gregwilder.com Alison's website: https://alisonwilder.net Doctor Body is Alison & Greg's experimental electronic duo. PatternSonix is Alison & Greg's niche consulting firm focusing on the intersection between sound and AI. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or check us out at toomuchmusicpodcast.com Music, blogging, & more from your hosts: Dr. Greg Wilder | Alison Wilder…

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Art vs. Pop Music Smackdown - Pt. 1 49:03

2 years ago49:03

49:03

The first sign that the Wilder marriage might be in trouble happened before the wedding : it was a knock-down, drag-out fight about whether there's a fundamental difference between music in the European art music tradition and music in the American blues tradition. (We can all agree that this is a severely nerdy topic to fight about.) Eventually, after years of testy conversation, Alison conceded on this one -- Greg and Alison now agree, they're different. But how? This two (maybe three?!)-part episode delves into the specific traits and characteristics that make art music and pop music different from each other. Part one focuses on the musical characteristics, while part two will dive into culturally-driven differences. Greg's website: https://gregwilder.com Alison's website: https://alisonwilder.net Doctor Body is Alison & Greg's experimental electronic duo. PatternSonix is Alison & Greg's niche consulting firm focusing on the intersection between sound and AI. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or check us out at toomuchmusicpodcast.com Music, blogging, & more from your hosts: Dr. Greg Wilder | Alison Wilder…

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Greg Tells Alison What to Do - Composition Challenge Pt. 2 42:09

3 years ago42:09

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Since Alison and Greg are a formerly-married couple, they know each other's strengths and weaknesses. In this two-part series, they're using that knowledge for good, and creating challenges tailor-made to help the other person become a better musician -- and who knows, maybe a better person along the way! This episode covers Greg's challenge to Alison: to craft a drum sound for her upcoming Blix Byrd album by testing out a few different sounds. This is opposed to her usual gut-instinct way of just going with it...what will this ultra-crafty approach yield for her music?! In this episode, we talk about the Dave Smith Instruments Tempest drum machine, as well as the Roland 606, 707, 808, and CR78 drum machines. Greg's website: https://gregwilder.com Alison's website: https://alisonwilder.net Doctor Body is Alison & Greg's experimental electronic duo. PatternSonix is Alison & Greg's niche consulting firm focusing on the intersection between sound and AI. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or check us out at toomuchmusicpodcast.com Music, blogging, & more from your hosts: Dr. Greg Wilder | Alison Wilder…

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Alison Tells Greg What to Do - Composition Challenge Pt. 1 35:06

3 years ago35:06

35:06

Since Alison and Greg are a formerly married couple, they know each other's strengths and weaknesses. In this two-part series, they're using that knowledge for good, and creating challenges tailor-made to help the other person become a better musician -- and who knows, maybe a better person along the way! This episode covers Alison's challenge to Greg: to create a piece of music without using his composer craftiness. He's not allowed to think about what he's going to make, but has to abandon his training and use only his intuition to create music. Check out the episode to learn why this was a challenge for Greg, and how it went! Greg's website: https://gregwilder.com Alison's website: https://alisonwilder.net Doctor Body is Alison & Greg's experimental electronic duo. PatternSonix is Alison & Greg's niche consulting firm focusing on the intersection between sound and AI. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or check us out at toomuchmusicpodcast.com Music, blogging, & more from your hosts: Dr. Greg Wilder | Alison Wilder…

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Two Nerds Talk About What Music is Worth 38:44

3 years ago38:44

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It's official: the internet has been a game-changer for music. Alison and Greg dive into how music is and isn't valuable today, both monetarily and culturally. As usual, their conversation is far-reaching. They talk about the usual suspects: Spotify, major labels, Napster, machine learning algorithms, and music for media. Of course, it doesn't stop there. You'll also hear about the desensitization of listeners by reality TV danger music, the Faustian deal we make as musicians, the sheer brilliance and stupidity of Hans Zimmer's music, making beats for Drake, Lawrence Kramer's defense of classical music as still relevant, and music's current value as your mood for sale. Greg's website: https://gregwilder.com Alison's website: https://alisonwilder.net Doctor Body is Alison & Greg's experimental electronic duo. PatternSonix is Alison & Greg's niche consulting firm focusing on the intersection between sound and AI. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or check us out at toomuchmusicpodcast.com Music, blogging, & more from your hosts: Dr. Greg Wilder | Alison Wilder…

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To Music School, or Not to Music School? 54:40

3 years ago54:40