Shop Talk: Orpheus Media Research music analysis tool Clio
Dr. Greg Wilder says that he’s created software that can dissect and analyze music so deeply and powerfully that music copyright litigation, discovery and automated composition will experience a paradigm shift.
He’s beaten researchers at MIT and Stanford who have been researching similar technologies for years, he says. And he was able to beat them because they’re computer scientists with an interest in music.
He, on the other hand, is a classically trained musician with an interest in computer science.
Wilder, who is the co-founder and chief science officer of Orpheus Media Research, received his piano performance and composition doctorate from Eastman School of Music, a top nationally-ranked music conservatory in Rochester, New York. He says he’s been playing piano since he was three.
“I spoke music before I spoke English,” he says. “Computer stuff, at this point, is out there for the taking. The music stuff is not.”
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