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
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
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
A photo story of Wild Up’s performance of WEST. at Roulette in Brooklyn in 2016. Photos by Stephanie Berger. This was our first time on the road, our first time performing in NY. There were too many of us in one air bnb. It was a moment that now… 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