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Slowfoam is Berlin-based Madelyn Byrd’s all-encompassing music project. As a sound artist, DJ, label head, and educator, their practice interplays the personal, political, and mythical to explore displacement and (re)connection across spatial and somatic dimensions. Queering the periphery of leftfield, ambient, and experimental music, Slowfoam alchemizes drones, electro-acoustics, field recording, voice, and sound design into genreless whirls. A self-identified worldbuilding practicioner, they source inspiration from hydrofeminism, neuroaesthetics, microbiology, ecology, and post-capitalist theory to prefigure portals of possibilia. Their distinct approach to sound invites listeners into uncanny reflection zones that bubble with the magic of the in-between.
Slowfoam released their acclaimed debut LP, Transcorporeal Portal, in March 2024 with Somewhere Press. They have also released music with Mappa, Lillerne, Knekelhuis, Jungle Gym Records, and Archaic Vaults, amongst others. Over the past decade, they have performed and toured across Europe, Asia, and North America. Slowfoam won the 2025 raster open call: European Soundtrack prize in the ‘Elegiac’ category and received a Musicboard Berlin scholarship in 2025 to produce their forthcoming album, Night Rider, set to be released in Spring 2026.
Slowfoam is 1/3 of the spoken word project, Songs for the Crossing, alongside Pablo Diserens and Lou Croff Blake, and 1/4 of the experimental quartet, feu fou, alongside Diane Barbé, Mondlane and LOH. Slowfoam collaborates with Lou Croff Blake on their project CHIMERA, working in 2025 as fellows at School of Commons (SoC - Zürich University of the Arts) and at AADK (Spain), with the generous support of Goethe Institute. Slowfoam co-founded Gravity Pleasure, a record label & platform for FLINTA+ alongside fellow sound artist slyn.
Additionally, Madelyn is a freelance educator, project consultant, and creative mentor working with individuals who want to expand & queer their practice, build creative resilience, and cultivate meaningful work amidst friction-filled times.
Slowfoam released their acclaimed debut LP, Transcorporeal Portal, in March 2024 with Somewhere Press. They have also released music with Mappa, Lillerne, Knekelhuis, Jungle Gym Records, and Archaic Vaults, amongst others. Over the past decade, they have performed and toured across Europe, Asia, and North America. Slowfoam won the 2025 raster open call: European Soundtrack prize in the ‘Elegiac’ category and received a Musicboard Berlin scholarship in 2025 to produce their forthcoming album, Night Rider, set to be released in Spring 2026.
Slowfoam is 1/3 of the spoken word project, Songs for the Crossing, alongside Pablo Diserens and Lou Croff Blake, and 1/4 of the experimental quartet, feu fou, alongside Diane Barbé, Mondlane and LOH. Slowfoam collaborates with Lou Croff Blake on their project CHIMERA, working in 2025 as fellows at School of Commons (SoC - Zürich University of the Arts) and at AADK (Spain), with the generous support of Goethe Institute. Slowfoam co-founded Gravity Pleasure, a record label & platform for FLINTA+ alongside fellow sound artist slyn.
Additionally, Madelyn is a freelance educator, project consultant, and creative mentor working with individuals who want to expand & queer their practice, build creative resilience, and cultivate meaningful work amidst friction-filled times.