TOBY
TOMTOM
Composer & Visual Artist
Installation . Sound . Film
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MEET TOBY TOMTOM
Artist working across sound, transmission, and interactive systems
Toby TomTom is a New York–based composer and interdisciplinary artist exploring communication, longing, and the instability of meaning. Born in Ohio and working between music and installation, he approaches sound as both emotional language and structural system.
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An ASCAP award-winning songwriter, his work resists fixed genre and often blends acoustic minimalism with rhythmic and atmospheric experimentation. His visual and sonic projects investigate how messages travel—through memory, through distortion, through other voices.
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Signals from the Static, his art installation project, extends his musical practice into participatory installation, transforming a song into a transmission ritual. Across mediums, his work asks a recurring question: what does it mean to be heard?
Artist Songwriter Toby TomTom with Playwright/Director Jackie Alexander. The Obeah Symphony, which ran Off-Broadway in production at The Billie Holiday Theater (Brooklyn), featured songs composed by Toby TomTom.
Pride & Tradition (The Blessed Damned One) by self-taught artist Toby TomTom. Ih his spare time, Toby loves to paint!
Toby TomTom, with his brother, composed & produced a young Alicia Keys' first track. Placed this song on NYC's Hot 97!
Artist Songwriter Toby TomTom with his brother winning the ASCAP Abe Olman Award given to the Most Promising Songwriters (also won by John Legend)!
It's really gratifying when the media captures what you are communicating as an artist. God energy! Thankful!
Early Daze - Everybody Starts Somewhere! Artist Songwriter Toby TomTom workin' the acoustic craft at The Bitter End (NYC).
TOBY TOMTOM CREATIVE JOURNEY
Born 2 Be Free © Official Video
My first release! Available on Spotify, Apple Music & streaming platforms everywhere! Inspired by my youngest son and dedicated to him. Be free!
Loveolution© - the Process
This is an example of my creative process, converting Loveolution from its acoustic folk origins into a funky, genre-bending sonic work of art. A new style of music called “Fulk” haha (folk/funk).
Loveolution Lyric Video -
I so enjoyed creating this take on a lyric video for Loveolution. It's my expression of love for the world. One love, one world.
Tomorrow Yesterday Lyric Video
I may be partial, but I dig the lyrics on this one :-) - so check 'em out. Enjoyed creating this vid. Be in the moment y'all!
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