Liz Tonne is a sound artist inspired by the unorthodox use of the human voice. She is an improviser and an interpreter of contemporary composition using voice as a sound source. Her palette is an abstraction of singing styles ranging from jazz to bird songs, classical technique to the casual sounds of machinery. She combines air, breath, whispers, overtones and disconnected text to explore the evocative power of the human voice.

She was a member of the Boston based, art-rock ensemble Mile Wide, in the mid 1990's. followed by a long stint with Jonathan LaMaster's Saturnalia. She is a quarter of undr quartet, along with James Coleman, Greg Kelley and Vic Rawlings.

For many years she sang professionally as an all-occasion entertainer for the bands Horns in the House, Party Train and The Vince Damiano Quartet. She has sung pop, jazz and classic rock in biker bars, wedding venues, race-track lounges and on the town bandstands of New England.

Tonne presently performs as a solo artist, in small collaborative ensembles and as a member of The BSC, the eight person supergroup of electroacoustic musicians led by Bhob Rainey.

liztonne@gmail.com