October 25th –Fire Ecologies St. Louis Triennial
Coyote Time Convening: Climate Futures and Infrastructural Imaginaries

Unheard-of returns to St. Louis to perform Christopher Stark’s Fire Ecologies. Christopher Stark’s six part Fire Ecologies is a musical homage to the global environment as it faces a perilous future. Stark was first inspired to write the work after traveling the American West in the summer of 2020 and observing several wildfires ravaging the landscape of California, Montana, Oregon, and Colorado. Stark’s expansive score is matched to the vast subject matter; the large-scale structural movement of the work happens on a stretched time scale, as the trajectory of climate transformation unfolds in slow motion in human terms, albeit alarmingly fast in light of geological and biological trajectories.