ARTIST STATEMENT Abigail Toll is a sound artist and composer whose practice moves between composition, artistic research, and installation, all of which are close studies in resonance and tuning. Rooted in voice and classical flute, her practice has since branched into an inquiry that mobilizes resonance and tuning to probe trance-states and structures of power. Her work has been described as "exquisite" (Bandcamp Daily), "fascinating" (François J. Bonnet, GRM/Radio France), "magical stuff" (Boomkat), and "a temple of sound" (Anxious Magazine).

Toll is concerned with what becomes perceptible when sound is given time and space to unfold, through the subtle transformations that occur during sustained listening. Her prismatic deep listening environments often begin in encounter or intuition, though emerge through rigorous inquiry into psychoacoustics, modal music, and archeo-acoustics, before taking form as albums, ensemble works, installations, or performance. Each form becoming a resonant body, activating tuning systems that produce gradual interference patterns and perceptual shifts — a practice that understands altered states of listening as sites of political and perceptual emancipation. Her approach contributes to an ongoing artistic discourse in experimental music concerned with perception, transcendentalism, and listening as an active practice, as pioneered by composers Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Catherine Christer Hennix, and Pauline Oliveros among others.

Her work has been presented internationally at venues and festivals including Heart of Noise – The Ferdinandeum Museum (AT), Suoni per il Popolo Festival Montreal (CA), l'Ancienne Belgique (BE) & Kunsthal Gent among others. She is a founding curator of Tranceversal Voices, a multidimensional platform for deep listening, drone, hypnotic club music, and poetry, which has showcased performances by emerging and established artists including bela, Rabih Beaini, Ruhail Qaisar, Concepcion Huerta and Rosa Anschütz.