Abigail Toll (UK/DE) is an experimental music artist based in Berlin. Her psychoacoustic soundworlds combine ambient, electroacoustic techniques which unfold as meditation and upheaval. Her artistic research focuses on data aesthetics and harmonic chaos as a mode for critical thinking, which is often in collaboration with musicians, artists and writers. Matrices of Vision is the title of her forthcoming debut release on Shelter Press which premiered as an ensemble performance at the Klosterruine in Berlin with KW Institute of Contemporary Art.
Extended bio
Matrices of Vision features Abigail Toll (c-flute; electronics), Rebecca Lane (quartertone bass
flute; c-flute), Lucy Railton (cello) and Evelyn Saylor (vocals). She is also an artistic
programmer for interdisciplinary format HOLON in Berlin and has an upcoming collaboration with visual artist Stina Baudin for Rehearsing Moves on Hazy Paths at ZK/U in Fall 2023.
Toll studied English Literature and Art History (BA) at Sussex University (Brighton, UK) and Electroacoustic Composition (MA) at the KMH; Royal College of Music, Stockholm (SE).
She was an artist in residence for the Amplify Berlin programme in 2018 with Caterina Barbieri and Maya Shenfeld, shortly after which she released her first EP Old World | New Ruins in 2019 under the moniker Ionian Death Robes. Selected performances include: Roter Salon with Puce Mary (Berlin, DE); Swedish Association of New Music Promoters, (Gävle, SE); Klosterruine (Berlin, DE); LAS (Poznan, PL); with Aleksandra Słyż & Linus Hillborg: l’Ancienne Belgique (Brussels, BEL) and Kunsthalle Gent (Ghent, BEL);The Lucerne School of Music (Lucerne, CH); Moira (Utrecht, NL); with Jungstötter: UT Connewitz, (Leipzig, DE); Arttheater, (Cologne, DE); Beatpol (Dresden, DE); with Tiara Roxanne: re:publica (Berlin, DE); Images Festival (Toronto, CA); AMOQA (Athens, GR).