Daniel Schreiner: Fundamental Energy

Join pianist, composer, and visual artist Daniel Schreiner for a dynamic program of 20th-21st century repertoire investigating the intersection of resonance and rhythm at the piano. From Claude Debussy's Feux d'artifice (1913) to Yoshi Weinberg's The Lifespan of Beets (2024), the concert's featured works evoke restless textures and constantly transforming compositional forms that walk the line between predictable regularity and idiosyncratic caprice.

With partly-composed, partly-improvised interludes by Schreiner connecting these pieces, the concert attempts to present a single, continuous abstract narrative mirrored by a newly-created 8-panel painting/graphic score that will be projected alongside the music.

"Fundamental Energy" posits the following questions: what is the boundary between the mechanical and the organic in our current reality? Is mechanization ever really perfectly regular, and do the seemingly irrational processes of the natural world conceal a different kind of logic? What can this teach us about how we understand "order" vs. "chaos," and what happens if we embrace that which we can't predict or control?

Host or Publisher Daniel Schreiner