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Slowfoam, aka Madelyn Byrd, is a shapeshifting artist and educator exploring the relational properties of sound, connection, and transformation across spatial and somatic dimensions.
As a producer, performer, and DJ, they invite listeners into paraworlds that bubble with the magic of the in-between. Journeying between/beyond genre, Slowfoam embodies an innate sensitivity to texture and somatic response. Whether they’re churning through dubwise and bass territories or sculpting glitched-out, dronesque tapestries, they contort emotional edges, plunge into the strange and uncanny, and tickle a sense of catharsis and possibilia.
Slowfoam released their acclaimed 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. In 2025, they won the raster open call: European Soundtrack prize in the category ‘Elegiac’ and received a Musicboard Berlin scholarship 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 Isadora, Mondlane and LOH. Additionally, Slowfoam collaborates with Lou Croff Blake on CHIMERA, working in 2025 as fellows at the School of Commons (Zürich University of the Arts) and resident at AADK (Blanca, Spain). Together with slyn, Slowfoam co-founded Gravity Pleasure, a hydrofeminist music label & platform supporting FLINTA+ artists.
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As an freelance educator, Byrd draws on their background in Positive Psychology and Neuroaesthetics (MSc) along with a criticality toward academia. They strive to develop courses that are accessible to all backgrounds and financial situations, using a horizontal approach to insight and exchange. They foster supportive learning environments that invite students to value failure, think beyond the self, collaborate with the more-than-human, and imbue their practice with subversion. They also work as a project consultant and creative mentor with those who desire to build creative resilience, expand & queer their practice, and cultivate meaningful work amidst friction-filled times.
As a producer, performer, and DJ, they invite listeners into paraworlds that bubble with the magic of the in-between. Journeying between/beyond genre, Slowfoam embodies an innate sensitivity to texture and somatic response. Whether they’re churning through dubwise and bass territories or sculpting glitched-out, dronesque tapestries, they contort emotional edges, plunge into the strange and uncanny, and tickle a sense of catharsis and possibilia.
Slowfoam released their acclaimed 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. In 2025, they won the raster open call: European Soundtrack prize in the category ‘Elegiac’ and received a Musicboard Berlin scholarship 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 Isadora, Mondlane and LOH. Additionally, Slowfoam collaborates with Lou Croff Blake on CHIMERA, working in 2025 as fellows at the School of Commons (Zürich University of the Arts) and resident at AADK (Blanca, Spain). Together with slyn, Slowfoam co-founded Gravity Pleasure, a hydrofeminist music label & platform supporting FLINTA+ artists.
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As an freelance educator, Byrd draws on their background in Positive Psychology and Neuroaesthetics (MSc) along with a criticality toward academia. They strive to develop courses that are accessible to all backgrounds and financial situations, using a horizontal approach to insight and exchange. They foster supportive learning environments that invite students to value failure, think beyond the self, collaborate with the more-than-human, and imbue their practice with subversion. They also work as a project consultant and creative mentor with those who desire to build creative resilience, expand & queer their practice, and cultivate meaningful work amidst friction-filled times.
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