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 the host of RadioActivity, a weekly radio show at freeform station WFMU.

Abbie plays regularly in NYC and has also toured in California, the Midwest, 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 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.