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Johnny Boston Interviews Gennady Stolyarov II on Growing a Mainstream Transhumanist Movement – October 30, 2022

Johnny Boston Interviews Gennady Stolyarov II on Growing a Mainstream Transhumanist Movement – October 30, 2022

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Watch the stream of filmmaker Johnny Boston’s interview with U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II. This interview was originally recorded on September 21, 2020, to accompany 2030: The Film (directed by Johnny Boston) and provide additional insight on transhumanism as a philosophy and a movement and its prospects for effectively and beneficially shaping the future of humanity. We streamed it again on October 30, 2022, on Gennady Stolyarov II’s YouTube channel, to raise awareness of the subjects discussed in the interview.

This stream was accompanied by a live chat and followed by a brief Musical Q&A session (featuring Chairman Stolyarov’s compositions Somber Variations, Op. 93, and Noble Aspirations, Op. 42 – the latter of which USTP Legislative Director Jason Geringer rearranged in 2022 in a recording that audiences heard for the first time).

Find out about 2030: The Film.

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About 2030: The Film: Johnny Boston was 10 years old when he first met FM-2030, a futurist who intended to live forever. But in 2000, after his body ceased to function, FM was cryonically preserved. An unexpected call 16 years later places FM’s future in Johnny’s hands.

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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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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

 

Louis Moreau Gottschalk – Weber’s Oberon Overture, J. 306 – Transcription for Piano, 4 Hands, Op. 83 – Recording by Gennady Stolyarov II

Louis Moreau Gottschalk – Weber’s Oberon Overture, J. 306 – Transcription for Piano, 4 Hands, Op. 83 – Recording by Gennady Stolyarov II

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk

For the holidays, U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II offers this first-ever recording of an old proto-transhuman work by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, made new through the power of technology.

Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s piano transcription of Carl Maria von Weber’s 1826 Oberon Overture for four hands has seldom been performed in public, and no known recording existed of it until now. Gottschalk (1829-1869) created it in 1857, and the last documented public performance was by Eugene List (1918-1985) in Spring 1979, as briefly mentioned in a May 4, 1979, New York Times article by Joseph Horowitz.

While there exist many transcriptions of the Oberon Overture, Gottschalk’s is absolutely, monumentally unique in its extent of ornamentation, thunderous intensity, and virtuosic passages (which will be unmistakable to the listener). Perhaps the demands that this piece would place on human performers explain the rarity of any attempts to play it. It is likely that only a few remarkable pianists throughout history, including Gottschalk himself, would have had the skill, endurance, and proto-transhuman mental processing power needed to carry it out without fail.

Fortunately, with musical notation and composition software, combined with increasingly realistic digital instruments, the limitations of the human hands can be transcended, and this work can be made available to listeners as Gottschalk intended it to be heard. This recording was created using the MuseScore 3.0 by Gennady Stolyarov II between June and December 2021; the transcription itself required approximately 36 hours of meticulous work, spread out over half a year. However, elevating this piece into public awareness is certainly worth the effort. This is heroic music showing the impressive heights to which human achievement, ingenuity, and virtuosity can rise, and it is a marvelous gift from Gottschalk in 1857 to our era.

Watch the score video on YouTube here and on Odysee here.

Download the MP3 file of this composition for free here.

Download the score (published in 1901 – now in the public domain) here.