Madelyn Byrd (they/them) is a genre-expansive musician and DJ, eco-driven artist, worldbuilding practitioner and educator. They have produced critically-acclaimed albums and mixes, and collaborate extensively with visual artists and dancers, honing a hyper-collaborative, cross-disciplinary spirit. As a sensitive synaesthete, they utilize the body as an autoethnographic device to deconstruct and reconstruct materiality and the perceptual realm using various mediums, often sound, movement, and spoken word. Using a decolonial, hydrofeminist and queer methodology, they un/re-world possibilia, situating their creative work somewhere between what is and what if, seeking social transformation beyond human-centred perspectives. Madelyn holds a Master’s in Neuroaesthetics from Goldsmiths, where they researched the impact of collaborative imagination on measures of connection and hope in social praxis art.

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Slowfoam is Madelyn’s all-encompassing sound project. Slowfoam's carefully crafted aural environments plunge listeners into paradoxical pools of deep meaning and obscurity, bubbling with transformative potential and the magic of the in-between. Slowfoam is a former resident at Internet Public Radio, where they curated their monthly show, Our Tomorrow. They have performed extensively, including recent performances at Subbacultcha (NL), Cafe Oto (London), and Morphine Raum (Berlin). They have released albums on Somewhere Press, Mappa, Jungle Gym Records and contributed to compilations on Knekelhuis, Oscilla Sound, Eastern Nurseries, secondnature, and more. Their work has yielded features on Bandcamp, Electronic Sound Mag, First Impressions, Pitchfork, Boomkat, The Wire Magazine, and Futurism Restated, amongst others. They are currently teaching a critical theory + music production course with Soundial on Sonic Worldbuilding.