MADELYN BYRD | SLOWFOAM
they/them, b. 1992
madelynbyrd.com
slowfoam@gmail.com
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
MSc Psychology of Art, Neuroaesthetics, Creativity (Distinction), Goldsmiths, 2022 - 2024
BA Psychology & Multimedia Art (Honors), Evergreen State College, 2019 - 2021
AA Graphic & UX Design, Creative Academy of Seattle Central, 2017 - 2018
ALBUMS
Transcorporeal Portal, LP, Somewhere Press, March 2024
Worlding with Earth, EP, Mappa, December 2023
Kindly, EP, Lillerne Tapes, November 2022
Spring ~.~*~.~, EP, Self-Released, March 2021
Inflorescence, EP, Self-Released, May 2020
Scenes From A Dream, EP, Jungle Gym Records, November 2019
Important Bodies, EP, Co-Released w/ Painter, December 2018
Lust + Boredom, EP, Jungle Gym Records, November 2018
COMPILATIONS
Eastern Nurseries - Diving Headfirst Into The Sun, July 2024
Oscilla Sound - Liminal, July 2024
radio.syg.ma - In Solidarity With Palestine, December 2023
Somewhere Press - The Blue Hour, September 2023
Knekelhuis, ...it wasn’t really me, December 2022
Ambient Flux, Synthesis <2, January 2022
Theory Therapy, Out of Season, August 2021
Cry Like Donna - Bouquet, May 2021
secondnature - secondnature & friends, February 2021
Of Paradise - Vol. 3, June 2020
MSc Psychology of Art, Neuroaesthetics, Creativity (Distinction), Goldsmiths, 2022 - 2024
BA Psychology & Multimedia Art (Honors), Evergreen State College, 2019 - 2021
AA Graphic & UX Design, Creative Academy of Seattle Central, 2017 - 2018
ALBUMS
Transcorporeal Portal, LP, Somewhere Press, March 2024
Worlding with Earth, EP, Mappa, December 2023
Kindly, EP, Lillerne Tapes, November 2022
Spring ~.~*~.~, EP, Self-Released, March 2021
Inflorescence, EP, Self-Released, May 2020
Scenes From A Dream, EP, Jungle Gym Records, November 2019
Important Bodies, EP, Co-Released w/ Painter, December 2018
Lust + Boredom, EP, Jungle Gym Records, November 2018
COMPILATIONS
Eastern Nurseries - Diving Headfirst Into The Sun, July 2024
Oscilla Sound - Liminal, July 2024
radio.syg.ma - In Solidarity With Palestine, December 2023
Somewhere Press - The Blue Hour, September 2023
Knekelhuis, ...it wasn’t really me, December 2022
Ambient Flux, Synthesis <2, January 2022
Theory Therapy, Out of Season, August 2021
Cry Like Donna - Bouquet, May 2021
secondnature - secondnature & friends, February 2021
Of Paradise - Vol. 3, June 2020
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
⎼2024⎼
Roodkapje w/ Catherine Danger & Michel Banabila, Rotterdam, NL
Murmur b2b DJ Serene, Amsterdam, NL
Decadance b2b slyn, w/ Brent Jacko, Gan-D, 3Points Amsterdam, NL
IDK EDU w/ Pavel Milyakov, Francesca Heart, +more, Studio DB, Berlin, DE
Osmosis, Takilma, US
Earthling w/ Khotin & more, San Francisco, US
The Lab w/ Jake Muir, San Francisco, US
Pictures of Heaven, Nonplus Ultra, Los Angeles, US
MORSE w/ Chanel Beads & Dreamcastmoe, Tokyo, JP
Goo Night, Zur Klappe, Berlin, DE
Grabowsee Showcase, Grabowsee, DE
Introspective Electronics w/Alicia, Avsluta, Kwia, Berlin, DE
Pain Management w/ Huerco S, Aeriform, Significant Other, 90mil, Berlin, DE
Airborne @ Kwia, Berlin w/ ZULI, Slowfoam, Broshuda, ABADIR, Berlin, DE
Objects & Sounds w/ Love Is Yes & Morita Vargas, Ghent, BE
Morphine Raum, Berlin, DE
Subbacultcha: Cement #4, Amsterdam, NL
Old Hairdressers: Teresa Winter, NEY, Slowfoam, Glasgow, GB
Terra Obscura, London, UK
Cafe Oto: Teresa Winter, NEY, Slowfoam, London, UK
Somewhere Press x Slowfoam Berlin, DE
unfollow: Slowfoam & Rabih Beaini, Vienna, AT
scaling, Malmö, SE
⎼2023⎼
ROTA Festival, Blanca, ES
Codex Club, Berlin, DE
Mutant Radio, Tbilisi, GE
Index:Records, Left Bank, Tbilisi, GE
Power Play Rave, Berlin, DE
A New Wave, Arkaoda, Berlin, DE
Weich, 90mil, Berlin, DE
Moment_um with Dajci Collective, Autohaus, Berlin, DE
The Lodge, Mount Rainier, US
Sonic Garden, Iklectik, London, UK
Toulouse Low Trax, Philip Berg, & Slowfoam, Arkaoda, Berlin, DE
Vessel, 90mil, Berlin, DE
3XL Showcase, Cafe Oto, London, GB
Eamon Ivri, JQ, Cloak of Kings, Slowfoam, Iklectic, London, UK
Index:Records, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK
Gravity Pleasure: Earth Bonding Night, Kwia, Berlin, DE
⎼2022⎼
Nueen, Nexcyia, Slowfoam, Soup Kitchen, Manchester, UK
Nueen, Nexcyia, Slowfoam @ pipe factory, Glasgow, GB
Patricia Wolf, Slowfoam, Chrysanth, DJ Bricks, kwia, Berlin, DE
Nick Malkin, Perila, TIBSLC, Slowfoam, kwia, Berlin, DE
f-o-m 04 Release Gathering, kwia, Berlin, DE
Weich, kwia, Berlin, DE
Magda & The Aliens, loophole, Berlin, DE
Sentient Lands | Instants for Sonic Ecologies, Arkaoda, Berlin, DE
Rausch Drone Sleepover, Backsteinboot, Berlin, DE
⎼2021⎼
Cashmere Radio, Berlin, DE
Output Ritual, Mehringplatz 20, Germany, DE
How Do You Talk Across Distance, Prague, CZ
The Lodge, Mount Rainier, US
It’s All About Education, Prague, CZ
Plan Expositivo, Blanca, ES
SELECTED MIXES
HKCR: Many Worlds, November, 2024
The Otherness with Blume, July, 2024
Introspective Electronics, April, 2024
Xpone 10: Slowfoam, November, 2023
Chantssss invites Slowfoam on Ola Radio, October, 2023
Index:Records on Mutant Radio, October, 2023
3XL on NTS May, 2023
co:clear, January 2023
Paijata on Netil Radio, London, September 2022
Kinesis, Naarm (Melbourne), August 2022
Our Tomorrow on Internet Public Radio, Resident 2021 - 2022
Post Geography on NTS, March 2022
Music Is Records, Paris/Guadalajara, March 2022
Living ≋ Room, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2021
Theory Therapy on Balamii, Sydney, Australia, August 2021
Fake Rolex, Santiago, Chile, July 2021
NTS Field Recording Mix Tapes, June 2021
Expansions on KEXP, Seattle, USA, May 2021
Animalix, Melbourne, Australia, March 2021
Mitamine Lab, Mexico City, Mexico, February 2021
Cashmere Radio, Berlin, Germany, September 2020
Rinse France, April 2020
SELECTED PROJECTS & COMMISSIONS
2024
WILD EYE w/ Shezad Dawood & Daisy Hildyard, sound design, Scarborough, UK
Dreamtank, conference, Seattle, US
A Tuned Body, performance, Grabowsee, DE
Sympoietics, performance, Centro Negra, Blanca, ES
2023
Naturopathic Somaesthetics, workshop, ROTA Festival, Blanca, ES
Dreamtank, workshop, online
In An Invisible Feeling, audiovisual installation, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK
Gravity Pleasure, audiovisual performance, Kwia, Berlin, DE
2022
i quit smoking - music video for Frances Chang
NEONYT at Frankfurt Fashion Week - runway score
202030 Berlin Fashion Summit - sound installation
NEONYT at Frankfurt Fashion Week - sound installation
2021
Sky, AI - Plan Expositivo (Group Show), artist, Blanca, Spain
Output Ritual - Künstler Künstlerin, Berlin, DE
2020
Transitions ~ La lenteur by Solène Milcent - sound composition
Body x(n) by Imogen Mansfield - sound design & composition
Output Ritual - Kottbusser Damm 68, Berlin, DE
The Window - Curated by Shaghayegh Cyrous, San Francisco, US
What Shape is the Future? - Sprawl Mag, Tucson, US
I’m Worried About The Future - Online
2019
Spring Prefunk - Love Temple, Seattle, US
To Know Your Tone - Official music video for Hoop - Seattle, US
2018
Cantelope - Artist - Air Resort, Seattle, US
2017
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2016
Folding Reverberations - Generations, Seattle, US
Beam Zine (print of 500) - Seattle, US
shhh (solo show) - Firecreek, Flagstaff, AZ, US
2015
MOCAF (group show) - Flagstaff, AZ,US
IDIO Magazine Issue Two (print of 200) - Flagstaff, US
IDIO Magazine Issue One (print of 200) - Flagstaff, US
WORKSHOPS
Sonic Worldbuilding II: Methodology in Practice, 4-week course, Soundial
Subversive Creative Practice & Sonic Worldbuilding, 4-week course, Soundial
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
AADK, Artist in Residence, Blanca, Spain, (upcoming, March 2025)
Culture Moves Europe, Goethe Institute Grant, (forthcoming March 2025)
EMS, Artist in Residence, Stockholm, SE (forthcoming Spring 2025)
Grabowsee, Artist in Residence, Berlin, DE, August, 2024
AADK, Artist in Residence, Blanca, Spain, February 2024
Rota Festival, Guest Curator & Programmer, Blanca, Spain, December 2023
AADK, Artist in Residence, Blanca, Spain, March 2021
CAMP w/ Julia Holter, Artist in Residence, Remote, June 2020
Kickstarter, Recording Grant, March 2020
REWA, Creative Publishing Grant, January 2016
AFFILIATIONS
Soundial - Instructor (current)
SQUID INC - Collaborating Artist (current)
Somewhere Press - Represented Artist (current)
MOLD Collective - Founding Member (2021 -2024)
Internet Public Radio - Resident (2021 -2022)
Love Temple Collective - Founding Member
TUF Collective - Member (2018 - 2020)
⎼2024⎼
Roodkapje w/ Catherine Danger & Michel Banabila, Rotterdam, NL
Murmur b2b DJ Serene, Amsterdam, NL
Decadance b2b slyn, w/ Brent Jacko, Gan-D, 3Points Amsterdam, NL
IDK EDU w/ Pavel Milyakov, Francesca Heart, +more, Studio DB, Berlin, DE
Osmosis, Takilma, US
Earthling w/ Khotin & more, San Francisco, US
The Lab w/ Jake Muir, San Francisco, US
Pictures of Heaven, Nonplus Ultra, Los Angeles, US
MORSE w/ Chanel Beads & Dreamcastmoe, Tokyo, JP
Goo Night, Zur Klappe, Berlin, DE
Grabowsee Showcase, Grabowsee, DE
Introspective Electronics w/Alicia, Avsluta, Kwia, Berlin, DE
Pain Management w/ Huerco S, Aeriform, Significant Other, 90mil, Berlin, DE
Airborne @ Kwia, Berlin w/ ZULI, Slowfoam, Broshuda, ABADIR, Berlin, DE
Objects & Sounds w/ Love Is Yes & Morita Vargas, Ghent, BE
Morphine Raum, Berlin, DE
Subbacultcha: Cement #4, Amsterdam, NL
Old Hairdressers: Teresa Winter, NEY, Slowfoam, Glasgow, GB
Terra Obscura, London, UK
Cafe Oto: Teresa Winter, NEY, Slowfoam, London, UK
Somewhere Press x Slowfoam Berlin, DE
unfollow: Slowfoam & Rabih Beaini, Vienna, AT
scaling, Malmö, SE
⎼2023⎼
ROTA Festival, Blanca, ES
Codex Club, Berlin, DE
Mutant Radio, Tbilisi, GE
Index:Records, Left Bank, Tbilisi, GE
Power Play Rave, Berlin, DE
A New Wave, Arkaoda, Berlin, DE
Weich, 90mil, Berlin, DE
Moment_um with Dajci Collective, Autohaus, Berlin, DE
The Lodge, Mount Rainier, US
Sonic Garden, Iklectik, London, UK
Toulouse Low Trax, Philip Berg, & Slowfoam, Arkaoda, Berlin, DE
Vessel, 90mil, Berlin, DE
3XL Showcase, Cafe Oto, London, GB
Eamon Ivri, JQ, Cloak of Kings, Slowfoam, Iklectic, London, UK
Index:Records, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK
Gravity Pleasure: Earth Bonding Night, Kwia, Berlin, DE
⎼2022⎼
Nueen, Nexcyia, Slowfoam, Soup Kitchen, Manchester, UK
Nueen, Nexcyia, Slowfoam @ pipe factory, Glasgow, GB
Patricia Wolf, Slowfoam, Chrysanth, DJ Bricks, kwia, Berlin, DE
Nick Malkin, Perila, TIBSLC, Slowfoam, kwia, Berlin, DE
f-o-m 04 Release Gathering, kwia, Berlin, DE
Weich, kwia, Berlin, DE
Magda & The Aliens, loophole, Berlin, DE
Sentient Lands | Instants for Sonic Ecologies, Arkaoda, Berlin, DE
Rausch Drone Sleepover, Backsteinboot, Berlin, DE
⎼2021⎼
Cashmere Radio, Berlin, DE
Output Ritual, Mehringplatz 20, Germany, DE
How Do You Talk Across Distance, Prague, CZ
The Lodge, Mount Rainier, US
It’s All About Education, Prague, CZ
Plan Expositivo, Blanca, ES
SELECTED MIXES
HKCR: Many Worlds, November, 2024
The Otherness with Blume, July, 2024
Introspective Electronics, April, 2024
Xpone 10: Slowfoam, November, 2023
Chantssss invites Slowfoam on Ola Radio, October, 2023
Index:Records on Mutant Radio, October, 2023
3XL on NTS May, 2023
co:clear, January 2023
Paijata on Netil Radio, London, September 2022
Kinesis, Naarm (Melbourne), August 2022
Our Tomorrow on Internet Public Radio, Resident 2021 - 2022
Post Geography on NTS, March 2022
Music Is Records, Paris/Guadalajara, March 2022
Living ≋ Room, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2021
Theory Therapy on Balamii, Sydney, Australia, August 2021
Fake Rolex, Santiago, Chile, July 2021
NTS Field Recording Mix Tapes, June 2021
Expansions on KEXP, Seattle, USA, May 2021
Animalix, Melbourne, Australia, March 2021
Mitamine Lab, Mexico City, Mexico, February 2021
Cashmere Radio, Berlin, Germany, September 2020
Rinse France, April 2020
SELECTED PROJECTS & COMMISSIONS
2024
WILD EYE w/ Shezad Dawood & Daisy Hildyard, sound design, Scarborough, UK
Dreamtank, conference, Seattle, US
A Tuned Body, performance, Grabowsee, DE
Sympoietics, performance, Centro Negra, Blanca, ES
2023
Naturopathic Somaesthetics, workshop, ROTA Festival, Blanca, ES
Dreamtank, workshop, online
In An Invisible Feeling, audiovisual installation, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK
Gravity Pleasure, audiovisual performance, Kwia, Berlin, DE
2022
i quit smoking - music video for Frances Chang
NEONYT at Frankfurt Fashion Week - runway score
202030 Berlin Fashion Summit - sound installation
NEONYT at Frankfurt Fashion Week - sound installation
2021
Sky, AI - Plan Expositivo (Group Show), artist, Blanca, Spain
Output Ritual - Künstler Künstlerin, Berlin, DE
2020
Transitions ~ La lenteur by Solène Milcent - sound composition
Body x(n) by Imogen Mansfield - sound design & composition
Output Ritual - Kottbusser Damm 68, Berlin, DE
The Window - Curated by Shaghayegh Cyrous, San Francisco, US
What Shape is the Future? - Sprawl Mag, Tucson, US
I’m Worried About The Future - Online
2019
Spring Prefunk - Love Temple, Seattle, US
To Know Your Tone - Official music video for Hoop - Seattle, US
2018
Cantelope - Artist - Air Resort, Seattle, US
2017
---
2016
Folding Reverberations - Generations, Seattle, US
Beam Zine (print of 500) - Seattle, US
shhh (solo show) - Firecreek, Flagstaff, AZ, US
2015
MOCAF (group show) - Flagstaff, AZ,US
IDIO Magazine Issue Two (print of 200) - Flagstaff, US
IDIO Magazine Issue One (print of 200) - Flagstaff, US
WORKSHOPS
Sonic Worldbuilding II: Methodology in Practice, 4-week course, Soundial
Subversive Creative Practice & Sonic Worldbuilding, 4-week course, Soundial
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
AADK, Artist in Residence, Blanca, Spain, (upcoming, March 2025)
Culture Moves Europe, Goethe Institute Grant, (forthcoming March 2025)
EMS, Artist in Residence, Stockholm, SE (forthcoming Spring 2025)
Grabowsee, Artist in Residence, Berlin, DE, August, 2024
AADK, Artist in Residence, Blanca, Spain, February 2024
Rota Festival, Guest Curator & Programmer, Blanca, Spain, December 2023
AADK, Artist in Residence, Blanca, Spain, March 2021
CAMP w/ Julia Holter, Artist in Residence, Remote, June 2020
Kickstarter, Recording Grant, March 2020
REWA, Creative Publishing Grant, January 2016
AFFILIATIONS
Soundial - Instructor (current)
SQUID INC - Collaborating Artist (current)
Somewhere Press - Represented Artist (current)
MOLD Collective - Founding Member (2021 -2024)
Internet Public Radio - Resident (2021 -2022)
Love Temple Collective - Founding Member
TUF Collective - Member (2018 - 2020)
