Chris Oquist is a Chicago-based composer and multi-instrumentalist born in Puerto Rico to a Colombian mother and a Swedish-Greek-American father.

His music explores reflection, disintegration, and transformation: the ways that time quietly reshapes what we thought was fixed. He works at the intersection of experimental electronic music, classical composition, and sound art.

A defining thread in his practice is the question of imperceptible change: how something - a sound, a relationship, a climate - can drift so slowly that no single moment feels decisive, until it has crossed a threshold into something unrecognizable.

Derivas Liminares moves through that territory in real time.

For this performance, Oquist draws on publicly available atmospheric temperature datasets as compositional raw material, not to illustrate data, but to let its shape inform the arc of the music.

Running through it is a question about how we process loss: the particular grief of watching something cross a point of no return, accumulating slowly, named only in retrospect.

The performance is followed by a short artist talk and audience Q&A: Oquist will share how climate datasets became compositional decisions, and open the floor for conversation about what it means to listen to the climate rather than simply measure it.