U.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Charlie Painter – June 2, 2024
Charlie Painter
Gennady Stolyarov II
Art Ramon Garcia, Jr.
Jason Geringer
Ben Ballweg
On Sunday, June 2, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invited musician Charlie Painter for a Virtual Enlightenment Salon on music, philosophy, entrepreneurship, culture, and the connections among them. The conversation delved into jazz music and the differences between it and classical music – including jazz in terms of attitude, preparation, pedagogy, and listening. Charlie Painter shared insights regarding his approach to improvisation and provided some practical demonstrations. Furthermore, Objectivist philosophy was discussed, including Charlie Painter’s outlooks on Ayn Rand’s opinions as contrasted with Objectivist doctrine, morality/ethics, rational egoism, capitalism, the state of our current culture in terms of philosophy, free will versus determinism, and more.
Charlie Painter is a self-studied, self-producing guitarist, teacher, and band leader based in Madison, Wisconsin. Learn about him and his work on his website at https://www.charliepainter.com/.
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Timestamps
7:27 – Art Ramon Garcia’s musical endeavors
9:39 – What is Objectivism?
19:18 – What is Liberalism?
31:39 – Where Social Security fails as we have it set up
34:21 – Charlie Painter’s opening remarks
42:34 – Why Charlie chose jazz
46:22 – The differences between jazz and classical music
47:40 – How much improvisation there can be in jazz
51:34 – How good jazz comes about
55:33 – How Charlie became self-employed
1:02:43 – Why playing someone’s prior improvisation note for note is not often done in jazz
1:06:40 – Comparing jazz to sports
1:11:56 – How audiences differ across genres and settings
1:16:30 – Charlie’s music lesson (especially guitar and note choices)
1:36:14 – How note choice can evoke such different emotions
1:41:31 – A smattering of Ayn Rand’s beliefs that one could not consider Objectivist
1:46:21 – Our political system as “who needs to be sacrificed to whom” (crediting Yaron Brook)
1:55:16 – Charlie Painter’s closing remarks
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Visit Charlie Painter’s YouTube channel, which contains additional musical recordings.
Listen to Charlie Painter’s music on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/charlie-painter
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