“A Very Strong Woman” is the fifth work in the Traveling Viola series. On this evening, Maya Felixbrot will launch the album of the series – a body of work that began in 2018 and includes solo and ensemble pieces.

Traveling Viola is a series of site-specific and stage works combining music, video, and movement, exploring the harmony between body, nature, sound, and mind through physical phenomena such as vibration, floating, disintegration, and sinking.

At the launch, the video works Vibration, Float, and Crumbling will be presented, alongside the premiere of A Very Strong Woman, performed by Maya Felixbrot with dancer Maria Mavridou and harpsichord player Katerina Orfanoudaki.

While the previous works in Traveling Viola focus on external materials – water, salt water, sand, and mud – and use them to reflect on the soul, the body, movement, and sound, A Very Strong Woman looks at strength  in the context of femininity and through the body itself. It employs the body, its inner strengths and vulnerabilities, and their interaction with the external environment to examine the tension between social convention and inner experience.

The new Amsterdam-based label Xilent Records endorses multi-faceted works, which invite to be experienced sonically, visually, physically, intuitively or intellectually. 

This night will feature three different live sets of curious and daring artistic projects.

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• Amsterdam-based trio “Beam the Bomb” spawns blissful industrial easy listening music. They will present their brand new album “BonBomb“, which is released the same day on Xilent Records as cassette tape and digitally.
• “Zvov” shows their acoustic dada music-theater work “The First Bird Eurovision“. 13 birds from around the world, embodied by two musicians playing viola and double bass, come to life with music, movement and costumes.
• Maija Anttila & Jonathan Nagel released their album “Way Over Time” last spring on Xilent Records. Now finally they will play their work of ambient electro-acoustic soundscapes in a live concert.

18:30 Doors open. We will offer homemade vegan food for a friendly price, so don’t worry about coming hungry from work. We got you covered!

19:30 – 21:15 Live shows

22:00 Bar / building closes to respect the neighbors

Venue – OT301 Ventilator cinema / bar

Tickets between 8 – 20 €. Pay what you can, we trust you that you can make an appropriate decision on how much you can support us. All money goes directly to the artists.

Celebrating the album release of

“BonBomb” by Beam the Bomb

Xilent Record’s 6th album features the Amsterdam experimental music group Beam the Bomb. Their new album “BonBomb” releases on Monday, October 23rd, 2023, on cassette and digitally.

Pre-Order now on Bandcamp!

More information here: XTR-006