MADELYN BYRD (she/they) is a Berlin-based musician, researcher, and curator. Fostering dialogues between humans, non-humans, and new technologies, Madelyn integrates possiblia’s emotional and theoretical nodes to prefigure unconventional ways of being. In an evolving effort to map speculative sensorial and perceptive realms, they employ an intrinsically collaborative spirit to guide their multidisciplinary practice. Each material play-space is a portal into a watery world of sentimentality and grief that beckons healing and social transformation.

They have produced critically-acclaimed albums, mixes, audiovisual works, collages, poetry, and social-praxis experiments. 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 they produce, DJ, and perform under. Slowfoam traces the peripheries of ecology and technology, presence and possibility, and more-than-human connectedness. A tapestry of artefacts - drones, glitched-out textures, field recordings, obfuscated words, glossy sound design, off-kilter polyrhythms, electro-acoustics, and sparkling ephemera - convey a genre-defying paraworld. 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 released music on labels around the globe, including Jungle Gym Records (Los Angeles, USA), Lillerne Tapes (Chicago, USA), and Mappa (Lučenec, Slovakia) and are currently represented by Somewhere Press (Glasgow, SL) with whom they released Transcorporeal Portal, their debut LP in March 2024. Their releases have yielded features on Bandcamp, Electronic Sound Mag, First Impressions, Pitchfork, Boomkat, The Wire, and Futurism Restated.