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PRESS
“Exquisite” (Bandcamp Daily)
“Fascinating” (François J. Bonnet / GRM Radio France) 
“Magical stuff” (Boomkat)
“A temple of sound” (Anxious Magazine)
“A clue to human perception” (Coeval Magazine)
“An infinity in motion” (Adventurous Music)


CONTACT

abigail.toll@proton.me





BIO
Abigail Toll is a Berlin-based sound artist and field researcher composing for chamber ensembles, solo electroacoustic performance and sonic-sculptural installation. Her practice consists of shimmering, alternately tuned electronic and acoustic drones in dialogue with quantum cosmology, archaeo-acoustics and trance.

This Winter, her compositional work for The Afterimage Series will premiere at ZKM, Karlsruhe during the Hertzlab residency.

Her research project Where words fail was published in the tekhnē publication and presented during the tekhnē symposium at Trafo, Szczecin, Poland in 2026. Other residencies in 2026 have included The Goethe Institute, Serra da Estrela, Portugal and EMS Stockholm,  Unsound Lab and “Harvesting Otherwise” conference at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria. Former residencies include Amplify Berlin under Caterina Barbieri (2018); tekhnē, GMEA, Albi (2024) and ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin (2023) and HOLON Berlin (2025).

Toll’s debut studio album Matrices of Vision (Shelter Press, 2023) was presented as an ensemble commission by KW Institute of Contemporary Art, and performed at the Klosterruine by Rebecca Lane, Lucy Railton, and Evelyn Saylor. Her second studio album Idol (Superpang, 2025), nominated for the German Record Critic’s Prize, was accompanied by Lick the Walls to Understand Echoes, an audioreactive installation commissioned by HOLON Berlin, developed in collaboration with media artist Anton Filatov.   

Toll’s music was recently included on a BBC Late Junction mixtape curated by Japanese electronic legend, Nobekazu Takemura. Her work has been presented internationally at 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), l’Ancienne Belgique (BEL), Kunsthal Gent (BEL), Gibanja, Kontejner (CR), Pawilon (PL), UT Connewitz (DE) and Volksbuehne (DE) among others.

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, The Goethe Institute, Berlin Music Commission and Music Board Berlin.



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