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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 has carved out a distinctive space in contemporary drone and electroacoustic composition. Rooted in early training in voice and classical flute, her practice mobilizes resonance and tuning to probe trance states and structures of power, translating these inquiries into archival, field research and hypnotic, minimalist works that undulate between solo and chamber ensemble performances and sculptural installations.

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, a new 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.

Residencies include Amplify Berlin under the direction of composer Caterina Barbieri, ZK/U Berlin – Center for Art and Urbanistics, tekhnē (GMEA). Upcoming engagements include residencies at EMS-Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm and ZKM, Karlsruhe and conferences at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and for tekhnē at Trafo, Szczecin.


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