MOCA + Wild Up Democracy Sessions

Immediately following the 2024 US Presidential election, MOCA and orchestral collective Wild Up (founded 2010, Los Angeles) will create a hub to explore the cooperative practices of democracy during this pivotal moment of political change. Over three days, we will explore creativity, justice, determination, and liberation through a series of musical happenings and social assemblages. Projects will invite active engagement, with open rehearsals and porous boundaries between performers and audience. The installation offers space to contemplate how civic institutions, like museums and orchestras, can reinvigorate democracy through the lens of creation and participation.

The three-day happening began with a Friday evening concert and continued with daytime events throughout the weekend.

Democracy Sessions Zine

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Events

Endless Season 2024-2025

Endless Season continues internationally and across Los Angeles, as we embark on a year of festivals, residencies, and deep explorations of sound and those close-to-the-heart feelings that draw us toward one another. We begin by bringing the music of Julius Eastman to Germany at Ruhrtriennale. Then, we look toward the future of society with a weekend of democratic music-making with Democracy Sessions at MOCA Warehouse. In 2025, we untether Darkness Sounding, a festival that explores how listening, sound, and music shape our understanding of the world, from LA to congregate in New York around tuning and droves of medieval harmonies at 92NY. And we explore what it means to live life To The Fullest, celebrating selves brimming with unique righteousness, around the music of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell in a three-month-long festival with the LA Philharmonic and REDCAT and other partners yet to be announced.

Endless Season 2024-2025