Naomi McCarroll-Butler is a saxophonist, clarinetist, and instrument maker from Toronto. She can be found making a wide range of music, from the full-throated clamour of saxophone duo SALT to the spectral whispers of Decoration Day. Honouring music as spiritual expression, Naomi’s work investigates the liminality/ecstasy of trans embodiment and creating listening spaces that lift out of time.

Naomi's imagination has recently been overtaken by the seljefløyte, a simple overtone flute. Playing them, carving them, attaching them to slides, and combining them in harmonic sets is revealing a deep ancestral and physical mystery; the exploration of this instrument and the just intonation it implies is guiding her work towards a major new direction.

An active collaborator, Naomi plays with improvising unit Never Was (Reknee Harret, Joe Sorbara, Madeliene Ertel), Dan Pitt Quintet, Mingjia Chen's Tortoise Orchestra, Christine Duncan's Element Choir, The Queer Songbook Orchestra and various ad-hoc ensembles. She and her music have been featured by presenters and festivals across Ontario.