In April 2023, we were thrilled to play our GRAMMY®-nominated track, Julius Eastman’s Stay On It, on Tiny Desk! Thanks to the entire NPR team, that was a blast! For those keeping track, we squeezed in 14 people and 17 instruments (4 playing winds, strings, piano, bass, and even a vibraphone)… Read More
For ages, humans have been inspired by the act of rising, by being lifted off the ground and into flight. With an ensemble of wind instruments and a rhythm section, we follow the lines of celestial pop music, ecstatic Sufi spinning, wild free jazz, gripped complexity, and antiphonal polyphony. For… Read More
Chris Rountree sits down to talk about “of Ascension”, which was performed at The Soraya on Nov. 10th, 2018. Read More
Nadia Sirota and Chris Rountree sit down to discuss the debut episode of “Living Music Live”, presented by CAP UCLA on Jan 18, 2018. In the show, Wild Up performed the music of Andrew Norman and Caroline Shaw. In this performance, they talked, played, joked around, and showed the audience… Read More
Created by the team at The Clarice, this video encapsulates our “We The People” residency at the University of Maryland in 2018. Over the course of a week, we rehearsed side by side with music students on open score pieces, where agency and decision making matter most, and where every… Read More
From the second ever performance of Future Folk, this time in Brooklyn. A workshop of sorts. And still… With Future Folk, Wild Up creates a communal concert of sound/noise/experience that celebrates old-world ways of living in the modern era. Together we will explore the music from Ancient India, modern California,… Read More
https://vimeo.com/257609628 SECOND TAKE | Wild Up and the Industry A follow up on the new opera workshop FIRST TAKE, we partnered with The Industry opera company again, to present the full length concert premiere of Bonnie and Clyde, by Andrew McIntosh and Melinda Rice. In this vignette series of… Read More
Christopher Rountree speaks with National Sawdust about being 2016-17 Group in Residence, and how having a home in Brooklyn affected our creative process. Read More
This was the third project to come out of a 3-year tenure as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s “Education Ensemble in Residence.” In this dream sequence, Adrianne has fallen asleep on stage and wakes up on a beach somewhere near Malibu with Linnea. Together, they uncover the secrets and science… Read More
Jodie Landau’s album with Wild Up on Bedroom Community was the culmination of a year of work. An international musical collaboration between us and the Icelandic all-female choir Graduale Nobili, who recorded and toured with Björk. The project included a concert on August 30, 2014 at the historic Langholtskirkja… Read More
BBQ’s, dogs with frisbees, patriotism (the good kind), pie dishes gathering condensation just the moment that they leave the fridge, competition for competition’s sake, family, the family one chooses, whiskey sodas, a spare firework with grandpa, American brews, hot dogs like they mean it with mustard and pickle and tomato… Read More
https://vimeo.com/258178172 FIRST TAKE | Wild Up and the IndustryIn 2015 we partnered with The Industry opera company to workshop a half dozen new works by composers including: Jason Thorpe Buchana, Nomi Epstien, Jenny Olivia Johnson, Anne Lebaron, and Andrew McIntosh, all as part of the second iteration of the new… Read More
This was the first project to come out of a 3-year tenure as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s “Education Ensemble in Residence.” In this work, Wild Up and LACO delve into the sounds of the farm, from Beethoven to Cage to a new work by composer Chris Kallmyer. In… Read More
Santa Ana Sites #4: Wild Up at the Santora was a collaboration with Wild Up, the Colburn School, and composer Lisa Bielawa, presented by CSU Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center. For an evening, we took over the entire Santora Arts Building, performing two hours of dozens of micro concerts in… Read More
This actually happened. We can usually expected the unexpected at Wild Up shows, no matter how many times we sage smudge the room beforehand. But this was the first (and definitely only) time that a prehistoric reptile rushed the stage. At times it felt like he was our biggest fan,… Read More