TOBY
TOMTOM
Composer & Visual Artist
Installation . Sound . Film
Songs/Visuals
Music
About - 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.
An ASCAP award-winning songwriter, his practice resists fixed genre and blends acoustic minimalism with rhythmic and atmospheric experimentation. Across visual and sonic mediums, his work examines how messages travel—through memory, through distortion, through other voices.
Signals from the Static, his participatory installation project, extends this inquiry into interactive space, transforming song into a transmission ritual. Across mediums, his work returns to a central question: what does it mean to be heard—and what happens when the signal changes in transit?
Selected works exhibited at Ward-Nasse Gallery, SoHo, NYC
Recipient of the ASCAP Abe Olman Award for Most Promising Songwriter (awarded under his legal name).
Toby TomTom with playwright/director Jackie Alexander. TomTom composed original songs for The Obeah Symphony, produced Off-Broadway at The Billie Holiday Theater (Brooklyn).
Original mixed media work by Toby TomTom. Pride & Tradition (The Blessed Damned One) explores lineage, identity, and inheritance.
Early live performance at The Bitter End (NYC), developing the acoustic foundation of his songwriting.
Selected press coverage documenting critical reception.
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!
Contact
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