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
If you've wanted to join the Wild Up community, the time is now! Earlier this year, Wild Up received an extraordinary gift that helped us launch our new series, Endless Season. This gift includes a $20,000 matching donation. Your contribution, now until June 30, will be matched! Read More
We’re thrilled to welcome Elizabeth Cline as our new Executive Director! ✨ Read More
Mask Pattern No 1 by Adrianne Pope Mask Pattern No 1 is the first in a series of pieces for sewists and their sewing machines. Mask Pattern No 1 was written for sewists of all levels – all you need is a sewing machine and a steady beat to… Read More
To begin, I have one acknowledgment to make: despite the fact that this essay is supposedly about my experiences with “wilderness”, I will not actually be using that word in this writing. Most places we call wilderness in the United States were created artificially by forcibly removing people… Read More
From our first year of darkness sounding. It’s hard to capture the exact feeling — the feeling of making music in the dark, over 12 nights, during the darkest time of the year — in photos. But here are a few from darkness sounding 2019 – 20. Read More
These photos by photographer / musician Jenna Putnam captured the hazy, elated feeling of our intense week in the studio in September 2019, while recording the works of Julius Eastman. Over three days at Sunset Sound, we made some of the first studio recordings ever of “Femenine,” “Joy Boy,”… 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
We taught 800+ students of all ages during the week in the residency program called “We the People” and then invited them all on stage, with the rest of the audience, for our week-ending cult show “Future Folk.” For this version of Future Folk, we worked with 10… Read More
Empty Image Slider Block – add images in the contextual sidebar to create the slider! Stills taken from our project “of Ascension” after the workshop premiere at The Soraya in Northridge, CA. The culmination of a few weeks of work, and a few months of thought about: the internet, how… 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
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 memories… Read More