TOBY TOMTOM
Artist working across sound, transmission, and interactive systems
TOBY
TOMTOM
Composer & Visual Artist
Installation · Sound · Moving Image
Sound
About the Artist
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. He works across music and installation, approaching sound as both emotional language and structural system.
ASCAP award-winning songwriter, his practice resists fixed genre—blending acoustic minimalism with rhythmic and atmospheric experimentation.
Multi-instrumentalist. Self-produced.
He composes, performs, arranges, and records all instrumentation in his recordings.
Across mediums, his work examines how messages travel—through memory, distortion, and other voices.
His participatory installation, Signals from the Static (I Need a Yoko), transforms song into transmission ritual.
What does it mean to be heard—
and what happens when the signal changes in transit?
Featured Installation
Signals from the Static (I Need a Yoko)
Interactive installation exploring the fragility of human communication through Morse transmission and generative response.
Visuals
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 (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.
Motion
Loveolution© - Lyric Video
A visual meditation on love as revolution. One love. One world. One humanity.
Loveolution© - the Process
From acoustic folk roots to a funk-infused hybrid I call "Fulk" - this piece captures the evolution of an idea as it reshapes itself through rhythm and experimentation.
Born 2 Be Free © Official Video
My debut single. Written as a dedication to my youngest son - a reminder that freedom begins within.
Tomorrow Yesterday© - Lyric Video
One of my favorite lyric explorations - a reminder to be.
Contact
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