Lauren Tosswill is an artist working with sound, site, and movement to explore improvisation and vulnerability. She uses language and voice as a means to complicate and undermine comprehension, construct absurdity, and engage in live, relational exchange with collaborators and the audience. She has been creating original sound and performance works for over a decade.

Her debut solo album, my home in the year, was released on enmossed (US) in 2018. She has since released 1, 2 on Hard Return (UK) in 2022, and her work also appears on the 2019 vinyl compilation Hotline, alongside artists including Raven Chacon, Demian DinéYazhi', and Keioui Keijaun Thomas. Her recorded work has been released across labels including enmossed (US), Paralaxe Editions (ES), and Hard Return (UK), with additional releases forthcoming.

Tosswill’s sound and video work has been presented at institutions including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, the University of New England, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Portland Museum of Art. She has performed at festivals for experimental music including Savage Weekend, Ende Tymes, E Cubed, Buddy Fest, New England Underground Festival, and Hassle Fest. Her work has also been presented through livestream performances for Overtoon, Sonorium, Boston Hassle, Non-Event, Experimental Sound Studio, and The Wire.

She holds an MFA in Music/Sound from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. 

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