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Slowfoam | Madelyn Byrd (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based between Berlin and Marseille. Working with sound, spoken word, still + moving image, and social praxis, they alchemise somatic and spatial dimensions of entanglement and queered possibilia. Their process ritualistically interplays the personal, political, and mythical to pattern an ecopoetics of estrangement and home as we move through the climate and economic crises of late-stage capitalism.
Madelyn holds a Master's in Neuroaesthetics from Goldsmiths, University of London, where they researched the impact of collaborative imagination on measures of connection and hope. As a freelance educator, they create accessible, non-hierarchical learning environments that value failure and more-than-human collaboration as test-sites for post-anthropocentric ethics. Madelyn is a creative mentor and project consultant, working 1:1 with artists to build creative resilience and cultivate meaningful and aligned practices. Since 2023, they’ve co-developed a tentacular, post-individual + post-body project, CHIMERA, alongside Lou Croff Blake. The duo were fellows at the School of Commons (at ZHdK), and residents at Countdown Grabowsee (Berlin, DE) and AADK (Blanca, Spain).
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Slowfoam is Madelyn’s all-encompassing music project that they compose, perform, and DJ under. Weaving field recording, electroacoustics, spoken word, and generative synthesis, their genreless world moves through sounds of post-human bogs, wild west fantasy, and hydrofeminist queries from the aqueous deep. Whether they’re churning through dub/bass territories or glitchy dronesque tapestries, Slowfoam invites us into spaces that bubble with the magic of the in-between.
Slowfoam released their acclaimed LP, Transcorporeal Portal, in March 2024 with Somewhere Press, and have released music with Mappa, Lillerne, Knekelhuis, Jungle Gym Records, and Archaic Vaults, amongst others. They have performed and toured across Europe, Asia, and North America, notably at Cafe Oto (London), FIBER Festival (Amsterdam), Mostra Festival (Barcelona), The Lab (San Francisco) and Morse (Tokyo). In 2025, they won the raster Soundtrack Europe prize and received a Musicboard Berlin Scholarship. Slowfoam is 1/3 of the spoken word project, Songs for the Crossing alongside Pablo Diserens and Lou Croff Blake. They are 1/4 of the experimental quartet, feu fou, alongside Diane Barbé, Mondlane, and LOH. Alongside slyn, Slowfoam co-founded Gravity Pleasure, a record label and event series championing FLINTA+ artists and the intersection of hydrofeminism and sound.
Slowfoam | Madelyn Byrd (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based between Berlin and Marseille. Working with sound, spoken word, still + moving image, and social praxis, they alchemise somatic and spatial dimensions of entanglement and queered possibilia. Their process ritualistically interplays the personal, political, and mythical to pattern an ecopoetics of estrangement and home as we move through the climate and economic crises of late-stage capitalism.
Madelyn holds a Master's in Neuroaesthetics from Goldsmiths, University of London, where they researched the impact of collaborative imagination on measures of connection and hope. As a freelance educator, they create accessible, non-hierarchical learning environments that value failure and more-than-human collaboration as test-sites for post-anthropocentric ethics. Madelyn is a creative mentor and project consultant, working 1:1 with artists to build creative resilience and cultivate meaningful and aligned practices. Since 2023, they’ve co-developed a tentacular, post-individual + post-body project, CHIMERA, alongside Lou Croff Blake. The duo were fellows at the School of Commons (at ZHdK), and residents at Countdown Grabowsee (Berlin, DE) and AADK (Blanca, Spain).
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Slowfoam is Madelyn’s all-encompassing music project that they compose, perform, and DJ under. Weaving field recording, electroacoustics, spoken word, and generative synthesis, their genreless world moves through sounds of post-human bogs, wild west fantasy, and hydrofeminist queries from the aqueous deep. Whether they’re churning through dub/bass territories or glitchy dronesque tapestries, Slowfoam invites us into spaces that bubble with the magic of the in-between.
Slowfoam released their acclaimed LP, Transcorporeal Portal, in March 2024 with Somewhere Press, and have released music with Mappa, Lillerne, Knekelhuis, Jungle Gym Records, and Archaic Vaults, amongst others. They have performed and toured across Europe, Asia, and North America, notably at Cafe Oto (London), FIBER Festival (Amsterdam), Mostra Festival (Barcelona), The Lab (San Francisco) and Morse (Tokyo). In 2025, they won the raster Soundtrack Europe prize and received a Musicboard Berlin Scholarship. Slowfoam is 1/3 of the spoken word project, Songs for the Crossing alongside Pablo Diserens and Lou Croff Blake. They are 1/4 of the experimental quartet, feu fou, alongside Diane Barbé, Mondlane, and LOH. Alongside slyn, Slowfoam co-founded Gravity Pleasure, a record label and event series championing FLINTA+ artists and the intersection of hydrofeminism and sound.
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