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Futuristic Neoclassical Music – Virtual Concert I – Gennady Stolyarov II and Jason Geringer – December 25, 2022

Futuristic Neoclassical Music – Virtual Concert I – Gennady Stolyarov II and Jason Geringer – December 25, 2022

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Gennady Stolyarov II
Jason Geringer

Watch this virtual concert featuring Futuristic Neoclassical Music composed by Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party, and digitally remastered by Jason Geringer, USTP Legislative Director, to give each piece a crisp, futuristic sound. The music looks forward to a new era of human civilization, the Transhuman Era, where, through the progress of science and technology, humans will be able to realize their greatest aspirations while also preserving the best of past eras and previous achievements. Mr. Stolyarov’s music draws upon compositional styles ranging from the 16th century to the present day and emphasizes the importance of melody, rationality, and an appeal to the highest motives in seeking to express the possibility of a better world. The compositions are accompanied by animated videos as well as both historical and contemporary artworks, including digital paintings generated by artificial-intelligence platforms such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Dreamlike Art, as well as Mr. Stolyarov’s own fractal artworks.

Timestamps

0:13 – Introduction

1:54 – Contemplation, Op. 37

4:55 – Minuet #5, Renaissance Minuet, Op. 39

8:03 – Progress Amidst a Crisis, Op. 66

11:06 – Minuet #2, Exquisite Minuet, Op. 26

13:13 – Pann Quartet in F Major, Op. 70

16:06 – Baroque Piece for the Future, Op. 33

18:30 – Variations on a Randomly Generated Theme by Mozart, Op. 81

22:37 – Prelude #1, Op. 32

23:34 – Study #1, Op. 6

24:30 – Grand Procession, Op. 14

27:21 – Fanfare of Perseverance, Op. 58

29:07 – Abrupt Insights, Op. 73

31:23 – Rondo #2, Op. 65

35:15 – Waltz #1, Op. 1

36:29 – March #1, Op. 2

40:29 – Noble Aspirations, Op. 42

43:06 – Minuet #1, Freedom Minuet, Op. 22

46:31 – Waltz #2, Op. 13

48:16 – Rondo #3, Op. 67

51:52 – Industry, Op. 7

55:23 – Minuet #3, Systematic Minuet, Op. 34

57:26 – Prelude #2, Op. 41

58:23 – Waltz #3, Op. 25

1:00:50 – March #2, Op. 9

1:02:30 – Man’s Colonization of Space, Op. 35

1:05:50 – The Challenge, Op. 28

1:08:19 – Waltz #4, Op. 40

1:10:41 – The Run, Op. 64

1:12:02 – March #3, Op. 23

1:15:40 – Rondo #1, Fibonacci Rondo, Op. 54

1:17:39 – Fount of Clarity, Op. 24

1:20:58 – March #4, Op. 29

1:23:20 – Minuet #6, Baroque Minuet, Op. 43

1:25:24 – Rondo #4, Op. 68

1:27:42 – Spiral Tower, Op. 79

1:30:40 – Robotic Rag, Op. 82

1:32:53 – March #5, Belle Époque March, Op. 31

1:34:57 – Tenacity, Op. 5

1:38:40 – March #6, Toy Soldier March, Op. 38

1:39:54 – Liberation, Op. 20

1:42:53 – Triumphant Endeavor, Op. 19

1:45:34 – March #7, Op. 44

1:48:17 – Fanfare to Individualism, Op. 17

1:49:41 – Discoverer, Op. 16

1:51:34 – March #12, Transhumanist March, Op. 78

Listen to the YouTube playlist of Mr. Stolyarov’s compositions.

Download Mr. Stolyarov’s compositions for free.

Artistic Acknowledgments

Historical Artists Featured:  Ivan Aivazovsky,  H. Charles Barron, Jr., Albert Bierstadt, Bernardo Bellotto, Anna Boberg, Otto Boetticher, Chesley Bonestell, Carlo Bossoli, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Ford Madox Brown, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto), Gregory Chernetsov, Frederic Edwin Church, Winston Churchill, Hendrik van Cleve III, Thomas Cole, Edward Theodore Compton, Louis-Philippe Crépin, Adrien Dauzats Jacques-Louis David, Nicolas Louis Albert Delerive, Caspar David Friedrich, Bernhard Fiedler, Paul Fischer, Eduard Gaertner, Joseph Michael Gandy, Hildegard Herz, Antonio Joli, Jan van Kessel, Godfrey Kneller, Franz Krüger, Theodore Otto Langerfeldt, Charles Lefferts, George Luks, Robert McCall, Piotr Michałowski, Eadweard Muybridge, Henry Alexander Ogden, François d’Orléans, Maxfield Parrish, Frank R. Paul, Alexander Pock, David Roberts, Leander Russ, Ivan Shishkin, Andrey Sokolov, John Trumbull, Horace Vernet, Johannes Vermeer, Bogdan Willewalde, Joseph Wright of Derby, Hiroshi Yoshida, Marcin Zaleski

Contemporary Artists Featured: Marcie Carelock, Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, Bernd Grimm, Hamish Logie, Gennady Stolyarov II, Ekaterina Valinakova, Mencius Watts

 

Empowering Human Musical Creation through Machines, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence – Essay by Gennady Stolyarov II in Issue 2 of the INSAM Journal

Empowering Human Musical Creation through Machines, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence – Essay by Gennady Stolyarov II in Issue 2 of the INSAM Journal

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Gennady Stolyarov II

Note from Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman, United States Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party: For those interested in my thoughts on the connections among music, technology, algorithms, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and the philosophical motivations behind my own compositions, I have had a peer-reviewed paper, “Empowering Human Musical Creation through Machines, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence” published in Issue 2 of the INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art, and Technology. This is a rigorous academic publication but also freely available and sharable via a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license – just as academic works ought to be – so I was honored by the opportunity to contribute my writing. My essay features discussions of Plato and Aristotle, Kirnberger’s and Mozart’s musical dice games, the AI-generated compositions of Ray Kurzweil and David Cope, and the recently completed “Unfinished” Symphony of Franz Schubert, whose second half was made possible by the Huawei / Lucas Cantor, AI / human collaboration. Even Conlon Nancarrow, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen make appearances in this paper. Look in the bibliography for YouTube and downloadable MP3 links to all of my compositions that I discuss, as this paper is intended to be a multimedia experience.

Music, technology, and transhumanism – all in close proximity in the same paper and pointing the way toward the vast proliferation of creative possibilities in the future as the distance between the creator’s conception of a musical idea and its implementation becomes ever shorter.

You can find my paper on pages 81-99 of Issue 2.

Read “Empowering Human Musical Creation through Machines, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence” here.

Read the full Issue 2 of the INSAM Journal here.

Abstract: “In this paper, I describe the development of my personal research on music that transcends the limitations of human ability. I begin with an exploration of my early thoughts regarding the meaning behind the creation of a musical composition according to the creator’s intentions and how to philosophically conceptualize the creation of such music if one rejects the existence of abstract Platonic Forms. I then explore the transformation of my own creative process through the introduction of software capable of playing back music in exact accord with the inputs provided to it, while enabling the creation of music that remains intriguing to the human ear even though the performance of it may sometimes be beyond the ability of humans. Subsequently, I describe my forays into music generated by earlier algorithmic systems such as the Musikalisches Würfelspiel and narrow artificial-intelligence programs such as WolframTones and my development of variations upon artificially generated themes in essential collaboration with the systems that created them. I also discuss some of the high-profile, advanced examples of AI-human collaboration in musical creation during the contemporary era and raise possibilities for the continued role of humans in drawing out and integrating the best artificially generated musical ideas. I express the hope that the continued advancement of musical software, algorithms, and AI will amplify human creativity by narrowing and ultimately eliminating the gap between the creator’s conception of a musical idea and its practical implementation.”