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MADELYN BYRD | SLOWFOAM
they/them/any, b. 1992, USA
madelynbyrd.com
slowfoam@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2024 MSc Neuroaesthetics and Creativity, honors, Goldsmiths, University of London
2022 BA Psychology & Sound Art, honors, Evergreen State College
2018 AA Graphic & UX Design, Creative Academy of Seattle Central
ALBUMS + RELEASES
2025 Water Bodies, Gravity Pleasure [Cassette + Digital V/A]
2025 Rhizome of the Lost Steps, FACE Æ [Cassette + Digital V/A]
2025 Continuing A Worn Out Tradition, Archaic Vaults [Vinyl + Digital V/A]
2024 Transcorporeal Portal, Somewhere Press [Vinyl + Digital LP]
2024 Diving Headfirst Into The Sun, Eastern Nurseries [Cassette + Digital V/A]
2024 Liminal, Oscilla Sound [Cassette + Digital V/A]
2023 Worlding with Earth, Mappa [Cassette + Digital EP]
2023 In Solidarity, Radio Sygma [Digital V/A]
2023 The Blue Hour, Somewhere Press [Cassette + Digital V/A]
2022 Kindly, Lillerne Tapes [Cassette + Digital EP]
2022 ...it wasn’t really me, Knekelhuis [Vinyl + Digital V/A]
2022 A Better Place, Studio ‘94 Records [Double Cassette V/A]
2022 Synthesis <2, Ambient Flux [Cassette + Digital V/A]
2021 Spring ~.~*~.~ , self-released [Digital EP]
2021 Out of Season, Theory Therapy [Cassette + Digital V/A]
2021 Bouquet, Cry Like Donna [Digital V/A]
2021 secondnature & friends, secondnature [Digital V/A]
2020 Inflorescence, self-released [Digital EP]
2020 Vol. 3 - Of Paradise [Vinyl + Digital V/A]
2019 Scenes From A Dream, Jungle Gym Records [Cassette + Digital EP]
2018 Important Bodies, co-released w/ Painter [Cassette + Digital EP]
2018 Lust + Boredom, Jungle Gym Records [Cassette + Digital EP]
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2025 Museum Gunzenhauser presents raster. open call - soundtrack europe 2025
2025 FEU FOU [1/4 alongside Diane Barbé, Mondlane, & LOH] at 90mil, Berlin, DE
2025 Gravity Pleasure at Kwia, Berlin, DE
2025 Mostra Festival, Barcelona, ES
2025 Overflow, Berlin, DE
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 Factory, 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 PAM, Los Angeles, US
SELECTED RADIO & MIXES
2025 Recovery Channel on Kiosk Radio
2024 Osmosis
2024 HKCR: Many Worlds
2024 The Otherness with Blume
2024 Introspective Electronics
2023 Xpone 10
2023 Index:Records on Mutant Radio
2023 3XL on NTS
2022 co:clear
2021 Living ≋ Room
2021 Fake Rolex
2021 NTS Field Recording Infinite Mix Tapes
2021 Expansions on KEXP
2021 Animalia Mix Series
2021 Mitamine Lab
2020 Rinse France
SELECTED PROJECTS
2025 Gravity Pleasure, FLINTA-focused platform & label, Berlin, DE & Glasgow, GB
2025 Stretching Into Chimera w/ Lou Croff Blake & Ula Ligate
2025 The Stone Is At The Center w/ Lou Croff Blake, Blanca, ES
2025 Chimera w/ Lou Croff Blake, School of Commons (SoC), Zurich, CH & online
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
COURSES & WORKSHOPS
2025 Sonic Worldbuilding (with Slowfoam & Sk [Rain], 5-week course, online
2025 Stretch into Chimera w/ Ula Liagaitė & Lou Croff Blake, SoC at ZHdK, Zurich, CH
2025 Sonic Worldbuilding: Methodology & Practice, 5-week course at Kwia, Berlin, DE
2024 Dreamtank: A Conversation Space Exploring Communal Creativity, Seattle, US
2024 Sonic Worldbuilding II: Methodology in Practice, 4-week course on Soundial
2024 Sonic Worldbuilding & Subversive Creative Practice, 4-week course on Soundial
2023 Naturopathic Somaesthetics, ROTA Festival, Blanca, ES
RESIDENCIES
2025 casadirosa, Resident Artist, Loco, CH
2025 School of Commons (SoC), Participant, 2025 - ‘26, Zurich, CH
2025 AADK, Resident Artist, Blanca, ES
2025 EMS, Resident Artist, (forthcoming, Autumn ‘25), Stockholm, SE
2024 Globe Gallery Grabowsee, Resident Artist, Berlin, DE
2024 AADK, Resident Artist, Blanca, Spain
2023 Rota Festival, Resident Artist & Programmer, Blanca, ES
2022 Internet Public Radio, Resident DJ, Guadalajara, MX
2021 AADK, Resident Artist, Blanca, ES
AWARDS & FUNDING
2025 Musicboard Scholarship PLUS Recipient, Berlin, DE
2025 Raster Media Open Call Winner, European Capital of Culture, Dresden, DE
2025 Goethe Institute Culture Moves Europe Grant Recipient, Blanca, ES
2020 CAMP France, Artist Scholarship
2020 Kickstarter, Recording Grant
2016 REWA, Creative Publishing Grant
COMMISSIONS
2025 Field Work by Hannah Schillinger, Music Score & Performance, Munich, DE
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 by Solène Milcent, Music Score, Paris, FR
2020 Body x(n) (short film) by Imogen Mansfield, Music Score, Berlin, DE
COLLECTIVES
2023 (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