2012

Craft

9pm March 23rd, 2012 at Beyond Baroque in Venice
3pm March 24th, 2012 at Beyond Baroque in Venice

Hipster Music. A compendium.
The music of right now, right this very moment, is being created in basements and recorded in living rooms in high definition. We are the generation of DIYers, of Urban Homesteaders, who plant vegetables in our backyards and knit each-other sweaters. Our music is raw, unabashed, and we made it ourselves. In March, we present a concert in conjunction with Beyond Baroque and Venice Arts, about the music we’re writing now, why we’re here and how we think things should go forward.


new music: Brooklyn vs. Los Angeles
Timo Andres
Art Jarvinen
Andrew Norman
Andrew Tholl
Missy Mazzoli
Andrew McIntosh
Odeya Nini
Christopher Rountree
 

Ornithology


8pm January 14th, 2012 at the Armory Center for the Arts
in Pasadena

A study of fluttering winged life. For centuries artists have been obsessed with the study of birds, their sounds, and the freedom with which they move through the world. In Spring we follow a few visions of flight, through jazz, the avant-garde, and indie pop, with sounds that are old, new and in between.


Messiaen
Haydn
Ferneyhough
Charlie Parker
Andrew Bird
Chris Kallmyer
Mark Menzies

2011

Clarence Barlow, punk rock and player piano music

9pm November 18th, 2011 at Beyond Baroque in Venice
9pm November 19th, 2011 at Beyond Baroque in Venice

Barlow’s music is inspired by the intricate man-made sounds of a piano playing itself. It’s inspired by the comedy of classical music, and by the Sex Pistols. We’ve put together a night of music that we love. Not only a program of things that have influenced Clarence, but truly a night of music that inspires us.

• Clarence Barlow
• George Antheil
• Conlon Nancarrow
• piano rags by Albright and Bolcom
• the Misfits
• x-ray specs
• Fear
• and an arrangement of an arrangement
  Black Flag ---> Dirty Projectors ---> wild Up

Wild Up + CalArts

as part of the Sofia Gubaidulina Festival

at RedCat in the Walt Disney Concert Hall

Tuesday, May 17th at 8:30pm

 

In May 2011 Wild Up partners with CalArts for the culmination of their festival of Sofia Gubaidulina's music. On May 17th at the beautiful RedCat stage in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, 20 Wild Up musicians join 60 more from CalArts to present Gubaidulina's most known and biggest work: Offerotorium. The piece is one part violin concerto, one part epic homage to Bach's Musical Offering and one part narrative about life, death, and resurrection.

The ensemble will be joined by violinist Mark Menzies, who has been called a "riveting violinist" and "extraordinary musician" by the Los Angeles Times. Known for his interpretations and virtuoso performance of new music, Mark has conquered the major complexus scores of our time, personally recommended by composers such as Brian Ferneyhough, Roger Reynolds, Michael Finnissy, Vinko Globokar, Philippe Manoury, Jim Gardner, Elliott Carter, Liza Lim, Christian Wolff, and Sofia Gubaidulina for his performances of their music.

This will be a very special night of music making.

As part of her residency with CalArts in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Ms. Gubaidulina will be coaching the ensemble and in attendance for the performance.

We're really excited about this concert —in part because of the beauty of the music and the venue, but mostly because… it's really, really loud.

for tickets and more information:
http://www.redcat.org/event/sofia-gubaidulina

 

wild Up and Friends present

Le Boeuf

Saturday 3 / 19 / 11  doors at 7 o'clock

at the Bootleg Theatre

7:30 The Seasons
8:15 David Shane Smith
9:00 Entropy Ensemble
9:45 Wild Up




 

 

For our March 19th program at the Bootleg Theatre — we've asked a bunch of our friends to come make music. There will be antiphonal aerosol cans, Avant post-rock, voices, the award winning young violinist, Nigel Armstrong playing Ravel's gypsy masterpiece "Tzigane", and a piece about math and cows. We're calling it: le boeuf.

Expect something wonderful and something unexpected.


 

wild Up presents a new production of words and music

The Salt of the Earth

Friday 2 / 5 / 11  8 o'clock

at the Historic Jensen Rec Center Studio in Echo Park

Program will include adaptations of works by:

Bob Dylan
Shostakovich
Elliott Smith
Stephen Hartke
Rzewski
Schubert
Pete Seeger
Yevtushenko
Wilco
and more...







 

2010

Premiere Concert

February 5, 2010 / Rec Center Studio / Echo Park, CA

Audio, video and photographs of this performance are available on our media page.

 

2012

The Armory

8pm May 12th, 2012 at the Armory Center for the Arts
in Pasadena

There’s a place that exists. It used to hold munitions, but now children play in it all day making art. One of our main goals in performance is to be inspired by the space we’re performing in — this program is about the Armory itself. It’s about, people, art, war and peace.

• Pieces inspired by:
• Palestrina
• The metal of Slayer, Meshuggah and others
• Andrew Tholl’s bombastic still not a place to build monuments or cathedrals
• world premieres from Nick Deyoe,  Andrew McIntosh, Joshua Bornfield, and Chris Kallmyer
• and a staged performance of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale

American Composer's Orchestra Presents
wild Up at the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute, UCLA

August 7th - 11th, 2012

and a concert:

Improvisation 

at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall 
Saturday August 11th, 8pm

In August we're spending a week a UCLA discussing extended techniques, contemporary performance practice, and creativity with the students of American Composers Orchestra's Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute. The workshop culminates in a concert at Schoenberg Hall where we'll be exploring contemprary music and improvisation.