Abigail Toll is a sound artist and composer using electronics and flutes to explore the resonant, relational forces of minimalism and drone.
Her practice spans solo, ensemble and collaborative performances as well as sculptural, multichannel installations and artistic research. These formats bring psychoacoustics, tuning and tonal deviations into focus as prismatic deep-listening environments. She is currently researching quantum poetics and how sound persists through the resonant frequencies of architectural sites and landscapes. These frequencies in turn form the basis of her tuning systems.
Toll’s second studio album ‘Idol’ (rel. Superpang, 2025) was accompanied by a multichannel, audioreactive installation ‘Lick the walls to understand echoes’ in collaboration with media artist Anton Filatov; who has worked with artists such as Hania Rani, Matt Lambert, and bela at Atonal 2025. The live performance of ‘Idol’ is presented solo or in collaboration with Filatov’s audioreactive lighting design.
Toll’s music was recently included on a BBC Late Junction mixtape curated by Japanese electronic legend, Nobekazu Takemura and has been presented internationally at many cultural centres, DIY venues and festivals including Heart of Noise – The Ferdinandeum: Tyrolean State Museum (AU), GMEA (FR), Suoni per il Popolo Festival, Montreal (CA), IMAGES Festival (CA), l’Ancienne Belgique (BEL), Kunsthalle Gent (BEL), Gibanja, Kontejner (CR), Pawilon (PL), UT Connewitz (DE) and Volksbuehne (DE). Her debut record ‘Matrices of Vision’ (rel. Shelter Press, 2023) premiered by KW Institute of Contemporary Art at the Klosterruine as an ensemble performance, featuring Rebecca Lane, Lucy Railton, and Evelyn Saylor.
Toll holds an MA in Electroacoustic Composition from the KMH–Royal College of Music, Stockholm and is the recipient of numerous scholarships, including: Initiative Musik, the Royal Music Academy Stipendium, KodaKultur, Helge Axson Johnsons Stiftels, Carl Erik Levins Stifelse and Music Board Berlin among others.
Residencies include Amplify Berlin under the direction of composer Caterina Barbieri, ZK/U Berlin – Center for Art and Urbanistics, tekhnē, EMS and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, among others.
PRESS
“Exquisite” (Bandcamp Daily)
“Magical stuff” (Boomkat)
“A temple of sound” (Anxious Magazine)
“A clue to human perception” (Coeval Magazine)
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Publishing: Abigail Toll Publishing
abigail.toll(at)proton.me