Taking from visual and fiber craft practices, Abigail builds impactful textural sound sculptures and visual scores which invite a vast array of ‘performers’ - persons who utilize sound and movement in any way - to engage with ideas of community, waste, reuse, and nature.
Tactile, organic development marks each of her works, mimicking processes of the natural world and regenerative gardening practices. An installation made of used plastic bags torn and knotted together mimics the structure of a natural environment through becoming a strong, flexible network rather than a fragile single item. The network can be touched to make evocative, tactile sounds thus engaging the audience visually, aurally, and physically with the ideas of waste, reuse, and pollution.
As a sound artist and composer, Abigail has built installations and sound sculptures that consist of single-use trash and intricate crafts that invite the entire community to engage with sound together. She enjoys creating textural visual scores for highly varied groups of musicians. As a performer, Abigail performs in the noise duo Terminal Moraine with Andrew Dyet. She co-founded the virtual concert venue The Passing Room which showcased three or more unique artists twice a month during the COVID pandemic.
Abigail has participated in the Hear Now festival, Composing in the Wilderness, Westben Performer-Composer Residency, Yarn/Wire Institute, the Space City Music Festival, and Fresh inc Institute. Most recently, she was a resident at Chateau Orquevaux in Orquevaux, France.
Abigail has a passion for education and currently teaches music lessons and classes for the Fairmount Center for the Arts in Novelty, OH. During her time at the California Institute of the Arts, she held two teaching assistant positions along with tutoring Music Theory and serving as a Student Instructor for CalArts’s Community Art Program summer camp. She has worked as a resident counselor for Baldwin Wallace Univeristy’s Community Arts School band camp and has taught private violin lessons since high school.
Abigail studied composition at Baldwin Wallace University with Dr. Clint Needham and Dr. Jonathon Sokol and graduated with her Bachelors of Music May 2019 Magna Cum Laude. She is currently studying for her Masters of Fine Arts in composition and experimental sound practices with Anne LeBaron and Timothy Feeney at the California Institute of the Arts.