Overview

Los Angeles-based music collective Wild Up breaks their acclaimed Darkness Sounding festival out of LA for the first time, premiering it in New York City on 92NY’s stages.

The trio of concerts follows the enormous success of Wild Up’s Radical Adornment: The Music of Julius Eastman at 92NY in 2023. Darkness Sounding, which The New York Times has called “sincere, outdoorsy, a little trippy,” explores how sound and music shape our understanding of the world. Convening around themes of mindfulness and nature, the festival centers on deep listening, intentional gathering, and thoughtful questioning to foster awareness and expand connections to ourselves, each other, and the natural world. Join us for this boundary-pushing weekend of concert experiences merging listening, ritual, and community.

Legendary avant-pop icon Scott Walker’s final piece was a siren storm written for Wild Up, and they are honored to bring Rubato (It: ‘Stolen Time’) for trombones, strings, and electronics to NYC, performing it for the first time outside Los Angeles. Wild Up pairs the songs and lineages of Leilehua Lanzilotti’s Pulitzer finalist work with eyes the color of time and queer Canadian composer Claude Vivier’s futurist Zipangu, ending with LA composer James Tenney’s celestial improvised wall of overtones, Saxony.

Christopher Rountree, artistic director

This event is part of Wild Up’s three-day Darkness Sounding festival.
Other concerts:
Fri, Mar 21, 7:30 PM
Sat, Mar 22, 7:30 PM