Since 2018, Traveling Viola has been exploring the relationship between body, sound, movement, and nature through site-specific works combining music, video, and performance.
Each chapter in the series focuses on a different physical phenomenon—disintegration, buoyancy, vibration, and sinking—offering a perspective on the encounter between human and space, sound and time, movement and matter.

The works were created in various locations:

Crumbling (2018) — Rishon LeZion Sand Dunes
Float (2020–2021) — Bat Galim, Haifa
Vibration (2022) — Dead Sea
Mud (2024) — Soundign Here concert series, WORM, Rotterdam

For this album, I chose to present the audio versions only, without the video component. The video works can be viewed at the following links: 

Crumbling  vimeo.com/327016255?share=copy
Vibration  vimeo.com/1098952596
Float  vimeo.com/1098959899

credits

released October 26, 2025

Some tracks in the album are the original Traveling Viola works:

Vibration | Viola and tape, 2024
Float | Viola and tape, 2021
Crumbling | Viola and tape, 2018

The rest are pieces inspired by the series, created in collaboration with dear partners:

3. State of Matter 1 | Adaya Godlevsky & Maya Felixbrot, 2025
4. State of Matter 2 | Adaya Godlevsky & Maya Felixbrot, 2025
6. Vibration for Trio – Take 1 | Maya Felixbrot, Aya Lion, Orr Sinay, 2025

“State of Matter” originated from a recording of a musical performance by harpist Adaya Gudlevsky, created in collaboration with the audience as part of the Traveling Viola events at the Felicia Blumental Center for Music in Tel Aviv.
In the Center’s library, Adaya improvised her own interpretation of audience responses to the Traveling Viola video installation. She met audience members one-on-one and played music inspired by their reactions—expressed through drawings or text—to the installation, which was simultaneously on view in the main hall of the Felicia Blumental Center.
Adaya’s live musical responses were recorded and later reworked by Maya Felixbrot into the pieces presented here.

“Vibration” for trio grew out of the score for Vibration for solo viola and tape. It was conceived as an open score for an ensemble, outlining harmony and form while proposing textural frameworks that allow for varied structural and sonic development – within the piece and through the interaction among the ensemble members.
The score was written by Maya Felixbrot, with double bassist Or Sinai and saxophonist Aya Lion as creative collaborators in the process.

RECORDING
State of Matter was recorded live at Felicia Blumental Center for the Art of Sound, Tel-Aviv and processed at Maya’s studio.
Vibration for trio was recorded and mixed by Dotan Brand, in Tel-Aviv. 
The rest of the album was recorded in Maya’s home studio. 

ALBUM COVER made from image by Shai Cabili

Many thanks to all my collaborators, friends, and colleagues who have accompanied Traveling Viola over the years. The journey is only meaningful, and possible, because of you.

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