Wild Up

progressive noise makers. We make music. New music. Old music. We’ll play it, as long as we love it.

wild Up is a modern music collective - a group of Los Angeles-based musicians committed to creating visceral, thought-provoking happenings. Our programs are eclectic studies of people, places, and ideas that we find interesting. The group believes that music is a catalyst for shared experiences, and that the concert venue is a place for challenging, exciting, and igniting the community around us.

06/01/2026

Vision of Hell. Vision of Ecstasy. Vision of Eternity.

Process glimpses, illustrations, and score materials ahead of the June 6 world premiere of ’s “The Interior Castle”, inspired by St. Teresa of Ávila’s mystical treatise of the same name, which describes the soul’s interior “mansions” as a journey through contemplation, struggle, and ecstatic transformation.

This performance is sold out. A standby line for released tickets, available on a first-come, first-served basis, will open at the REDCAT Box Office at 6pm.

More info at the link in bio.

— Images courtesy of M.A. Tiesenga.

05/29/2026

“Vision of Hell. Vision of Ecstasy. Vision of Eternity.”

Process glimpses and score materials ahead of the June 6 world premiere of M.A. Tiesenga’s “The Interior Castle”, inspired by St. Teresa of Ávila’s mystical treatise of the same name, which describes the soul’s interior “mansions” as a journey through contemplation, struggle, and ecstatic transformation.

This performance is sold out. A standby line for released tickets, available on a first-come, first-served basis, will open at the REDCAT Box Office at 6pm.

More info at the link in bio.

— Images courtesy of

05/19/2026

🧨 One month until “Julius Eastman Vol. 5: Gay Guerrilla” arrives!

The countdown starts now! And before that: something fresh drops in two days 👀 newsletter subscribers get to hear it first.

Sign up at the link in bio.

Gay Guerrilla is out on June 19th 💫

05/15/2026

⛪🎶 For one night, REDCAT becomes a chapel of sound.

Join Wild Up and on June 6 for The Interior Castle, an evening spanning centuries of artistic and spiritual inquiry inspired by visionary women, most of them cloistered.

The program brings together music by medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen, Baroque Italian nun Isabella Leonarda, and Ethiopian composer-pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, alongside world premieres by LA-based composers .jpeg and .

Built as a kind of musical return-and-refrain, the evening circles back to four luminous piano works by Emahoy, performed by guest artist Vicki Ray, plus Eliza Bagg’s True City, a response to Hildegard’s O presul vere civitas, and Wild Up member M.A. Tiesenga’s The Interior Castle, a foray into St. Teresa of Ávila’s mystical architecture of the soul.
 📅 Saturday, June 6 | 8pm 📍 REDCAT 
Tickets at the link in bio!

05/11/2026

We are so grateful to everyone who joined us this past Saturday at The Nimoy for The Center is Between Us.

A huge thank you to our singular and spellbinding collaborators and musicians:
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And of course, endless gratitude to our lovely friends at .   The Center is Between Us closes out ‘Wild Up at The Nimoy’, a concert series exploring the multiplicities of sound, texture, and improvisation.

See you again next season!

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Images courtesy of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance. Photos by Jason Williams.

05/06/2026

👀 A sneak peek from weekend rehearsals for The Center is Between Us featuring & .

Join us this Saturday, May 9 at The Nimoy for the world premiere of Echoes of the Unstruck Sound. Plus, selections from Robert Ashley’s singular, iconic TV opera Perfect Lives.

Tickets at the link in bio!

04/21/2026

🌟Announced today: the fifth volume of our Julius Eastman Anthology, “Julius Eastman Vol. 5: Gay Guerrilla” arriving June 19 on New Amsterdam Records ().

Today we release the single “Melt To and Back Again”, something building from quietly anxious woodwinds and pulsing piano into a bleating, tumultuous fit—before resolving into an almost baroque fanfare. Listen now on all streaming platforms, and pre-order the album at the 🔗 in bio.

🎶 Gay Guerrilla is one of Julius Eastman’s most incendiary works: an ecstatic, unrelenting vision of q***r liberation that still feels dangerously alive. Across the album: echoes of Lutheran hymnals, stretched to the breaking point. Repetition that builds into something almost unbearable. Then, suddenly, radiance!

Before the work’s 1980 premiere, Eastman said: “If there is a cause—and if it is a great cause—those who belong to that cause will sacrifice their blood, because, without blood, there is no cause. So, therefore, that is the reason that I use gay guerrilla, in hopes that I might be one, if called upon to be one.”

Andrew Tholl, violin  Mona Tian, violin Darian Donovan Thomas, violin
Andrew McIntosh, viola
Carson Rick, viola
Derek Stein, cello  Seth Parker Woods, cello
Marlon Martinez, bass
Brian Cannady, percussion  Jodie Landau, percussion richard valitutto, piano
Adam Tendler, piano
Rachel Beetz, flute, alto flute
Claire Brazeau, oboe, english horn
Brian Walsh, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, bari saxophone
Shelley Washington, alto saxophone, bari saxophone
Marta Tiesenga, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Archie Carey, bassoon  Allen Fogle, french horn
Ryan Darke, trumpet

Christopher Rountree, conductor/artistic director
Produced, recorded & mixed by Lewis Pesacov with additional production by Christopher Rountree
Engineered by Lewis Pesacov & Clint Welander
Recorded at Fox Studio & Knobworld
Mixed at Ahata Sound
Mastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering
Executive Producer: Elizabeth Cline
Production Director: Brian Sea

04/13/2026

Slip outside ordinary time.🎶🌀

Saturday, May 9, join Wild Up and friends & for The Center Is Between Us at The Nimoy.

A surreal Midwestern myth unfolds through hypnotic text, circling memory, and awakening in Wild Up’s performance of Robert Ashley’s ‘The Park’ and ‘The Backyard’. Then: an improvised Hindustani raga set weaves ancient rhythmic cycles into the present moment.

📆 Saturday, May 9 | 8pm
📍The Nimoy
🔗 Tickets at the link in our bio

See you there!

04/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us Saturday at The Nimoy for Perfect Offering—the second of three concerts in our Wild Up at The Nimoy concert series exploring improvisation, minimalism, and everything in between.

Next Up ⬆️
The Center Is Between Us!
📆 May 9th | 8pm
Tickets at the link in our bio. See you there!

📸: Bailey Holiver

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