
ursonist
(etymology: arson + ursonate)
Be having a hello,
I make music, radio, and conceptual performance works. I also tap dance and take photos at shows.
This is my site!
About
Abbie is from Mars (PA). Based in New York City since 2020, she makes and performs experimental pop music with a penchant for improvisation, noise, and performance art. Her act is unique for incorporating electroacoustic tap dance with processing in Max/MSP between raw, impassioned, highly physical performances of her songs. A champion of the underground, Abbie is also the host of RadioActivity, a radio show at freeform station WFMU.
Abbie plays regularly in NYC and has also toured in Japan, California, and the Midwest, with other past dates in the Northeast and Canada. She has performed at cultural institutions including Elastic Arts; Stanford University’s CCRMA Stage; Joe’s Pub, a Program of The Public Theater; and National Sawdust; and she has produced commissioned sound art for the Metropolis Ensemble. She graduated in 2020 from Princeton University, where she studied History and Creative Writing and was a member of PLOrk (the Princeton Laptop Orchestra) and Program Director at WPRB.
Abbie has created several conceptual performance works that explore the liminal spaces between established formats. In September 2025, her album release event included a capella renditions of her songs interlaced with skits at the smallest park in NYC, a parade / historical walking tour, and participatory games for attendees, like vocal improv to karaoke tracks from the album. In January 2023, Abbie devised and led The WOAH! Factor, a mock business seminar held in Midtown, where experimental musicians incorporated live music into PowerPoint presentations, woven together by absurdist improv theater. The Abbie From Mars Album Release Experience of June 2022 was an interactive installation and “tour of your mind,” where attendees responded to self-reflective questions for use in a culminating musical performance.


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