We’re Wild Up. We’re a band. An experiment in its second decade. We make shows, and records. We make projects and tell stories that live somewhere between new music and theater and performance art and pop. The press says things about us. Our leader has a beard. We embrace the kindness of friends and strangers. We have dogs and gardens and kids. We once made the Himalayas out of cardboard, and sang atop them to the stars. We take photos with talismanic art objects. We’re repped by Moon Artist Management.

Endless Season 2026–2027

Wild Up's Endless Season 2026–2027 continues the ensemble's exploration of music as a social practice — a way of listening, learning, and rehearsing our collective life together. Across Los Angeles and beyond, the season gathers audiences into concerts, festivals, workshops, and large-scale collaborations that ask what an orchestra can be now: a space for civic engagement and imaginative practice, shaped by the people who make it together. More on this season

The Collective Orchestra

This is Wild Up’s participatory orchestral model: a framework where community members rehearse and perform side-by-side with Wild Up musicians. It’s an invitation onto our side of the music stand and into the ensemble itself — a place to learn, experiment, co-create, and experience the joy of making music together. More on this project

singers and instrumentalists in a circle, some seated on the floor

Democracy Sessions 2026

October 3 – November 3, 2026 3 events The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and REDCAT

Julius Eastman Anthology

A portrait and series of responses to one of our favorite composers. A four year journey toward, and in the midst of, a composer’s ideas about creativity, agency, identity, thoughtfulness and heart. More on this project

Black-and-white photograph of composer Julius Eastman as a young man, bent over a desk with pen in hand, writing musical notation on a sheet of manuscript paper.

Press

…[R]aucous, grungy, irresistibly exuberant…this group’s boisterously theatrical sensibility…draws out the vitality in the works it plays. [A] fun-loving, exceptionally virtuosic family.

— The New York Times “Review: East Meets West in a New York Debut”

“Singularly jubilant… Wild Up’s new rendition of Femenine takes a page from Eastman’s personal playbook: It’s exuberant, a bit in your face, sometimes capricious, and always surprising.”

— NPR Music “Julius Eastman, A Misunderstood Composer, Returns To The Light”

Sensational…This is not the only recording of Femenine. There are a few now, and all are bold and powerful. Wild Up, however, goes beyond all the others in capturing the sheer expansiveness of Eastman’s music. The repeated rhythmic tick that begins everything and never quite goes away is heard here as an invitation to dream. It is the sound of stepping out of yourself.

— NPR Music “The 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022”

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