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.

The burning distortion of ring-modulated electric violins tuned to the feedback of their amps in Tony Conrad’s Four Violins, the East Coast premiere of Andrew McIntosh’s microcosmic patterning Fixations, the world premiere of Sarah Davachi’s full Lower Melodies in which timbres and tunings become overlapping, and resonances become so indescribably intertwined that instruments and even individuals seem to be destroyed within the mass.

Christopher Rountree, artistic director

Program:

Tony Conrad
Four Violins (East Coast premiere of new version arr. McIntosh)

Andrew McIntosh
Fixations (East Coast premiere)

Sarah Davachi
The Lower Melodies (world premiere)

Location: Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall

Tickets: Starting at $40.00

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