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
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
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
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
Chris Rountree sits down to talk about “of Ascension”, which was performed at The Soraya on Nov. 10th, 2018. 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
Chris Rountree introduces “Craft: Brooklyn vs. LA” from below the Brooklyn Bridge. March, 2012. Read More
Christopher Rountree talks about the rehearsal process and idea behind “Ornithology.” The music of: Messiaen, Ferneyhough, Charlie Parker and Andrew Bird. World premieres by: Mark Menzies, Chris Kallmyer, Christopher Rountree, Archie Carey, Michael Shapiro, and Richard Valitutto. Ornithology, January 14th, 2012 at The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena… Read More