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MADELYN BYRD | SLOWFOAM
they/them, b. 1992
madelynbyrd.com
slowfoam@gmail.com
– EDUCATION –
2024 MSc. Psychology of Art, Neuroaesthetics, and Creativity, Goldsmiths with Distinction
2022 BA Psychology & Sound Art, Evergreen State College with Honors
2018 AA Graphic & UX Design, Creative Academy of Seattle Central
– ALBUMS + RELEASES –
2024 Transcorporeal Portal, Somewhere Press [Vinyl + Digital LP]
2024 Diving Headfirst Into The Sun, Eastern Nurseries [Tape + Digital VA]
2024 Liminal, Oscilla Sound [Tape + Digital VA]
2023 Worlding with Earth, Mappa [Tape + Digital LP]
2023 The Blue Hour, Somewhere Press [Tape + Digital VA]
2022 Kindly, Lillerne Tapes [Tape + Digital EP]
2022 ...it wasn’t really me, Knekelhuis [Vinyl + Digital VA]
2022 Synthesis <2, Ambient Flux [Tape + Digital VA]
2021 Spring ~.~*~.~ , self-released [Digital EP]
2021 Out of Season, Theory Therapy [Tape + Digital VA]
2021 Bouquet, Cry Like Donna [Digital VA]
2021 secondnature & friends, secondnature [Digital VA]
2020 Inflorescence, self-released [Digital EP]
2020 Vol. 3 - Of Paradise [Vinyl + Digital VA]
2019 Scenes From A Dream, Jungle Gym Records [Tape + Digital EP]
2018 Important Bodies, co-released w/ Painter [Tape + Digital EP]
2018 Lust + Boredom, Jungle Gym Records [Tape + Digital EP]
– SELECTED PERFORMANCES –
2024 Roodkapje w/ Catherine Danger & Michel Banabila, Rotterdam, NL
2024 Murmur, Amsterdam, NL
2024 IDK EDU at Studio DB w/ Pavel Milyakov, Francesca Heart, Berlin, DE
2024 Earthling at Golden Gate Park w/ Khotin & more, San Francisco, US
2024 The Lab w/ Jake Muir, San Francisco, US
2024 MORSE TOKYO w/ Chanel Beads & Dreamcastmoe, Tokyo, JP
2024 Pain Management at 90mil w/ Huerco S, Berlin, DE
2024 Airborne at Kwia, w/ ZULI, Broshuda, ABADIR, Berlin, DE
2024 Objects & Sounds w/ Love Is Yes & Morita Vargas, Ghent, BE
2024 Morphine Raum w/ SSIEGE, Berlin, DE
2024 Subbacultcha: Cement #4, Amsterdam, NL
2024 Old Hairdressers w/Teresa Winter, NEY, Glasgow, GB
2024 Cafe Oto w/ Teresa Winter, NEY, London, UK
2024 Transcorporeal Portal Release x Somewhere Press at 90mil, Berlin, DE
2024 unfollow: Slowfoam & Rabih Beaini, Vienna, AT
2024 scaling, Malmö, SE
2023 ROTA Experimental Music Festival, Blanca, ES
2023 Codex Club, Berlin, DE2023Mutant Radio, Tbilisi, GE
2023 A New Wave, Arkaoda, Berlin, DE
2023 Weich at 90mil, Berlin, DE
2023 3XL Showcase at Cafe Oto, London, UK
2023 Iklectic w/ Eamon Ivri, JQ, Cloak of Kings, London, UK
2023 Index:Records at Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK
2022 Soup Kitchen, Manchester, UK
2022 Pipe Factorya, Glasgow, GB
2022 Patricia Wolf at Kwia, Berlin, DE
2022 Sentient Lands w/ Pablo Diserens, Diane Barbé at Arkaoda, Berlin, DE
2022 Rausch Drone Sleepover at Backsteinboot, Berlin, DE
2021 How Do You Talk Across Distance, Prague, CZ
2019 False Prophet Presents: HTRK at Kremwerk, Seattle, US
2018 The Hit Factory, San Francisco, US
2018 PAM, Los Angeles, US
– SELECTED PROJECTS –
2024 Dreamtank, Creator & Researcher, Seattle, US & Online
2024 A Tuned Body, Creator & Performer, Grabowsee, DE
2024 Sympoietic Apparatus, Creator & Performer, Centro Negra, Blanca, ES
2023 Gravity Pleasure, Creator & Curator, Berlin, DE & Genoa, IT
2021 Sky, AI (A/V installation) at Plan Expositivo (group show), Artist, Blanca, Spain
2021 Output Ritual a/v on Künstler Künstlerin, Artist, Berlin, DE
2020 Output Ritual irl, Kottbusser Damm 68 Gallery, Berlin, DE
2020 The Window curated by Shaghayegh Cyrous, Artist, San Francisco, US
2016 Spring Prefunk, Organizer & Curator, Love Temple, Seattle, US
2016 Beam Zine (print of 500), Creator & Designer, Seattle, US
2016 shhh (solo show), Artist, Firecreek, Flagstaff, AZ, US
2015 IDIO Magazine: II (print of 200), Creator & Designer, Flagstaff, US
2015 IDIO Magazine: I (print of 200), Creator & Designer, Flagstaff, US
– COLLECTIVES –
current Gren Collective, Founding Member, Berlin, DE
2021 - 2024 MOLD Collective, Founding Member, Berlin, DE
2017 - 2020 Love Temple Collective, Founding Member, Seattle, WA
2018 - 2020 TUF Collective, Member, Seattle, WA
– COMMISSIONS –
2024 WILD EYE by Shezad Dawood & Daisy Hildyard, Sound Design, Scarborough, UK
2023 In an Invisible Feeling, AV Installation, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK
2022 i quit cigs, AV Work for Frances Chang, NY, USA
2022 Neonyt at Frankfurt Fashion Week, Runway Soundtrack, Berlin, DE
2022 Neonyt at Frankfurt Fashion Week, Sound Installation, Berlin, DE
2022 202030 Berlin Fashion Summit, Sound Installation, Berlin, DE
2020 Transitions ~ La lenteur (short film) by Solène Milcent, Sound Composition, Paris, FR
2020 Body x(n) (short film) by Imogen Mansfield, Sound Design & Composition, Berlin, DE
2018 Cantelope, Audiovisual Installation w/ Caroline Byrd, Air Resort, Seattle, US
– RESIDENCIES & AWARDS –
2025 Culture Moves Europe, Grant Recipient, Blanca, ES
2025 EMS, Resident Artist, (upcoming, Autumn ‘25), Stockholm, SE
2024 Grabowsee, Resident Artist, Berlin, DE
2024 AADK, Resident Artist, Blanca, Spain
2023 Rota Festival, Resident Artist & Programmer, Blanca, ES
2022 Internet Public Radio, Resident Artist, Guadalajara, MX
2021 AADK, Resident Artist, Blanca, ES
2020 CAMP, Artist Scholarship
2020 Kickstarter, Recording Grant
2016 REWA, Creative Publishing Grant
– COURSES & WORKSHOPS –
2024 Dreamtank ~ A Conversation Space Exploring Communal Creativity, Seattle, US
2024 Sonic Worldbuilding II: Methodology in Practice, Short Course, Soundial
2024 Sonic Worldbuilding & Subversive Creative Practice, Short Course, Soundial
2023 Naturopathic Somaesthetics, ROTA Festival, Blanca, ES
– SELECTED RADIO & MIXES –
2024 Osmosis in the Trees, Tukilma, OR
2024 HKCR: Many Worlds, Hong Kong, CHN
2024 The Otherness with Blume, Berlin, DE
2024 Introspective Electronics, London, UK
2023 Xpone 10, Berlin, DE
2023 Index:Records on Mutant Radio, Tbilisi, GE
2023 3XL on NTS, London, UK
2023 co:clear, Glasgow, GB
2021 Living ≋ Room, Lisbon, PT
2021 Fake Rolex, Santiago, Chile
2021 NTS Field Recording Infinite Mix Tapes, London, UK
2021 Expansions on KEXP, Seattle, US
2021 Animalia Mix Series, Melbourne, AU
2021 Mitamine Lab, Mexico City, MX
2020 Rinse France, Paris, FR
– EDUCATION –
2024 MSc. Psychology of Art, Neuroaesthetics, and Creativity, Goldsmiths with Distinction
2022 BA Psychology & Sound Art, Evergreen State College with Honors
2018 AA Graphic & UX Design, Creative Academy of Seattle Central
– ALBUMS + RELEASES –
2024 Transcorporeal Portal, Somewhere Press [Vinyl + Digital LP]
2024 Diving Headfirst Into The Sun, Eastern Nurseries [Tape + Digital VA]
2024 Liminal, Oscilla Sound [Tape + Digital VA]
2023 Worlding with Earth, Mappa [Tape + Digital LP]
2023 The Blue Hour, Somewhere Press [Tape + Digital VA]
2022 Kindly, Lillerne Tapes [Tape + Digital EP]
2022 ...it wasn’t really me, Knekelhuis [Vinyl + Digital VA]
2022 Synthesis <2, Ambient Flux [Tape + Digital VA]
2021 Spring ~.~*~.~ , self-released [Digital EP]
2021 Out of Season, Theory Therapy [Tape + Digital VA]
2021 Bouquet, Cry Like Donna [Digital VA]
2021 secondnature & friends, secondnature [Digital VA]
2020 Inflorescence, self-released [Digital EP]
2020 Vol. 3 - Of Paradise [Vinyl + Digital VA]
2019 Scenes From A Dream, Jungle Gym Records [Tape + Digital EP]
2018 Important Bodies, co-released w/ Painter [Tape + Digital EP]
2018 Lust + Boredom, Jungle Gym Records [Tape + Digital EP]
– SELECTED PERFORMANCES –
2024 Roodkapje w/ Catherine Danger & Michel Banabila, Rotterdam, NL
2024 Murmur, Amsterdam, NL
2024 IDK EDU at Studio DB w/ Pavel Milyakov, Francesca Heart, Berlin, DE
2024 Earthling at Golden Gate Park w/ Khotin & more, San Francisco, US
2024 The Lab w/ Jake Muir, San Francisco, US
2024 MORSE TOKYO w/ Chanel Beads & Dreamcastmoe, Tokyo, JP
2024 Pain Management at 90mil w/ Huerco S, Berlin, DE
2024 Airborne at Kwia, w/ ZULI, Broshuda, ABADIR, Berlin, DE
2024 Objects & Sounds w/ Love Is Yes & Morita Vargas, Ghent, BE
2024 Morphine Raum w/ SSIEGE, Berlin, DE
2024 Subbacultcha: Cement #4, Amsterdam, NL
2024 Old Hairdressers w/Teresa Winter, NEY, Glasgow, GB
2024 Cafe Oto w/ Teresa Winter, NEY, London, UK
2024 Transcorporeal Portal Release x Somewhere Press at 90mil, Berlin, DE
2024 unfollow: Slowfoam & Rabih Beaini, Vienna, AT
2024 scaling, Malmö, SE
2023 ROTA Experimental Music Festival, Blanca, ES
2023 Codex Club, Berlin, DE2023Mutant Radio, Tbilisi, GE
2023 A New Wave, Arkaoda, Berlin, DE
2023 Weich at 90mil, Berlin, DE
2023 3XL Showcase at Cafe Oto, London, UK
2023 Iklectic w/ Eamon Ivri, JQ, Cloak of Kings, London, UK
2023 Index:Records at Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK
2022 Soup Kitchen, Manchester, UK
2022 Pipe Factorya, Glasgow, GB
2022 Patricia Wolf at Kwia, Berlin, DE
2022 Sentient Lands w/ Pablo Diserens, Diane Barbé at Arkaoda, Berlin, DE
2022 Rausch Drone Sleepover at Backsteinboot, Berlin, DE
2021 How Do You Talk Across Distance, Prague, CZ
2019 False Prophet Presents: HTRK at Kremwerk, Seattle, US
2018 The Hit Factory, San Francisco, US
2018 PAM, Los Angeles, US
– SELECTED PROJECTS –
2024 Dreamtank, Creator & Researcher, Seattle, US & Online
2024 A Tuned Body, Creator & Performer, Grabowsee, DE
2024 Sympoietic Apparatus, Creator & Performer, Centro Negra, Blanca, ES
2023 Gravity Pleasure, Creator & Curator, Berlin, DE & Genoa, IT
2021 Sky, AI (A/V installation) at Plan Expositivo (group show), Artist, Blanca, Spain
2021 Output Ritual a/v on Künstler Künstlerin, Artist, Berlin, DE
2020 Output Ritual irl, Kottbusser Damm 68 Gallery, Berlin, DE
2020 The Window curated by Shaghayegh Cyrous, Artist, San Francisco, US
2016 Spring Prefunk, Organizer & Curator, Love Temple, Seattle, US
2016 Beam Zine (print of 500), Creator & Designer, Seattle, US
2016 shhh (solo show), Artist, Firecreek, Flagstaff, AZ, US
2015 IDIO Magazine: II (print of 200), Creator & Designer, Flagstaff, US
2015 IDIO Magazine: I (print of 200), Creator & Designer, Flagstaff, US
– COLLECTIVES –
current Gren Collective, Founding Member, Berlin, DE
2021 - 2024 MOLD Collective, Founding Member, Berlin, DE
2017 - 2020 Love Temple Collective, Founding Member, Seattle, WA
2018 - 2020 TUF Collective, Member, Seattle, WA
– COMMISSIONS –
2024 WILD EYE by Shezad Dawood & Daisy Hildyard, Sound Design, Scarborough, UK
2023 In an Invisible Feeling, AV Installation, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK
2022 i quit cigs, AV Work for Frances Chang, NY, USA
2022 Neonyt at Frankfurt Fashion Week, Runway Soundtrack, Berlin, DE
2022 Neonyt at Frankfurt Fashion Week, Sound Installation, Berlin, DE
2022 202030 Berlin Fashion Summit, Sound Installation, Berlin, DE
2020 Transitions ~ La lenteur (short film) by Solène Milcent, Sound Composition, Paris, FR
2020 Body x(n) (short film) by Imogen Mansfield, Sound Design & Composition, Berlin, DE
2018 Cantelope, Audiovisual Installation w/ Caroline Byrd, Air Resort, Seattle, US
– RESIDENCIES & AWARDS –
2025 Culture Moves Europe, Grant Recipient, Blanca, ES
2025 EMS, Resident Artist, (upcoming, Autumn ‘25), Stockholm, SE
2024 Grabowsee, Resident Artist, Berlin, DE
2024 AADK, Resident Artist, Blanca, Spain
2023 Rota Festival, Resident Artist & Programmer, Blanca, ES
2022 Internet Public Radio, Resident Artist, Guadalajara, MX
2021 AADK, Resident Artist, Blanca, ES
2020 CAMP, Artist Scholarship
2020 Kickstarter, Recording Grant
2016 REWA, Creative Publishing Grant
– COURSES & WORKSHOPS –
2024 Dreamtank ~ A Conversation Space Exploring Communal Creativity, Seattle, US
2024 Sonic Worldbuilding II: Methodology in Practice, Short Course, Soundial
2024 Sonic Worldbuilding & Subversive Creative Practice, Short Course, Soundial
2023 Naturopathic Somaesthetics, ROTA Festival, Blanca, ES
– SELECTED RADIO & MIXES –
2024 Osmosis in the Trees, Tukilma, OR
2024 HKCR: Many Worlds, Hong Kong, CHN
2024 The Otherness with Blume, Berlin, DE
2024 Introspective Electronics, London, UK
2023 Xpone 10, Berlin, DE
2023 Index:Records on Mutant Radio, Tbilisi, GE
2023 3XL on NTS, London, UK
2023 co:clear, Glasgow, GB
2021 Living ≋ Room, Lisbon, PT
2021 Fake Rolex, Santiago, Chile
2021 NTS Field Recording Infinite Mix Tapes, London, UK
2021 Expansions on KEXP, Seattle, US
2021 Animalia Mix Series, Melbourne, AU
2021 Mitamine Lab, Mexico City, MX
2020 Rinse France, Paris, FR