Join Rome Prize-winning composer and curator Christopher Stark for his Fire Ecologies album release concert at the Gowanus Canal, coinciding with Climate Week NYC 2025. Christopher is joined by Unheard-of Ensemble for an immersive album experience on the Gowanus. The ensemble invites audiences to listen to the performance from the land or on the water. Limited boat access and on-water support are provided by The Gowanus Dredgers. Attendees may also arrive in their own vessels.

Christopher’s Fire Ecologies is an album length work that explores America's changing landscapes in the face of climate change. The piece incorporates field recordings of the 2020 California wildfires and sounds from Christopher's travel across Montana, Oregon, and Colorado as well as explorations of nature from America’s heartland in Missouri and surrounding areas.

Christopher Stark, whose music The New York Times has called, "fetching and colorful," has been awarded prizes from the American Academy in Rome, Guggenheim Foundation, Chamber Music America, Barlow Endowment, and the Fromm Foundation at Harvard. Named a "Rising Star" by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, his works have been performed by ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Alarm Will Sound, Mivos Quartet, and Detroit Symphony. Stark has created orchestral arrangements for producers Nineteen85 (the producer of Drake’s “Hotline Bling”) and Luis Resto (the producer of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”) and is a Creative Partner of the St. Louis Symphony where he curates their contemporary chamber music series at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. Stark has held residencies at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria, Copland House in upstate New York, AiR Bergen in Norway, and the Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria where he was the Aaron Copland Fellow in Music. He is an Associate Professor of Composition at Washington University in St. Louis.