𝓜𝒾𝓍𝑒𝓈

𝕽𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴

Monthly on @internetpublicradio
Exploring utopia through sound, featuring collectives, artists, and activists around the globe.

September: Slowfoam (Berlin)
August: Nexcyia (London)
July: ecology141 / Kiiberborea (Odesa, Ukraine)
June: Slowfoam & Friends (Berlin/Worldwide)
May: Mitamine Lab (Mexico City)
April: Living Room (Lisbon)
March: Neilll (Los Angeles)
February: Pablo Diserens (Berlin)
January: RAN PARK (Seattle) & Slowfoam (Berlin)
December: Salamanda (Seoul)
November: Mold Collective (Berlin)
October: Apt E (Seattle)

𝑜ur 𝓉omorrow on Internet Public Radio

Third Tuesday's on @internetpublicradio 
@apte is a record label, party series, and DJ duo based out of Seattle, WA.

~What is the inspiration and vision behind Apt E?

Apt E has always been driven by a freewheeling sense of artistic expression beyond outlets exclusive to music. A strong friendship in which we co-enabled each other’s off-kilter concepts and senses of humor catalyzed our growth through shared experiences in our community. Apt E was born as an outlet to share our visions, which manifest as conceptual pieces across sonic and environmental mediums.  

~Can you share a little bit about what you’ve included in this mix and your process?

Color, texture, inward observation, music that moves us and grounds us, favorites old and new taken from curious corners of our collection. 

It’s difficult for us to properly verbalize how these tracks come together or from where. We are constantly sharing music with one another and feeding off of each other’s energy. We both share a strong sense of what this mix is and where we wanted to take it but neither of us know how to put that down on paper. Our process is very organic and stems purely from our adoration for sounds musical and otherwise. 

~If resources weren’t an issue, what is your biggest dream for Apt E, if you could make anything happen?

Funding a full production (carbon neutral) vinyl plant locally would be a priority, plus a handful of loft/gallery/warehouse art spaces locked down in Seattle would help ensure the underground a future here. If our resources truly were not an issue, the entire world would be a space that shares the same strength in community, equality, and expression as we do in our dedicated underground spaces. Until then we’re starting small and taking it one step at a time. 

~Any exciting things coming up Apt E or as individuals?

The vinyl for our third output, Apt E Vol 3, has finally been delivered. Hear it Nov 1st at apte.bandcamp.com :)

Our Tomorrow w/ Apt E (Seattle)

Aired on @internetpublicradio On Tuesday November 15th
Mold Collective is Louise Croff Blake (@dj_bricks), Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova (@mjhartelova), Diane Barbé (@dianeisadorabarbe), and Madelyn Byrd (@slowfoam)

▣ What is the inspiration and vision behind Mold Collective?

MOLD grew from our mutual needs to talk about art - our own and others' - in the context of our dysphoria with late capitalism.  As earth-lovers, we share a deep motivation to leave things a little better than we found them.  We seek to address the intuition that something is greatly amiss in our reality, while, at the same time, we cultivate a sense of wonder at our planet, our communities, and the complex relationships between ancient and future knowledges.  

If it sounds esoteric, then that's because we're just that type of people.  In each of us is a dynamic range between practical reasoning and amorphous dreamworlds.  We've realized that in harnessing this range together, we find the tools we need to process this very messy paradigm we share as contemporary arts practitioners. 

▣ Can you share a little bit about what you’ve included in this mix and your process?

We tried to pick tracks and sound bits by people that we believe already work towards, which also means inhabit, utopia. These utopias are far from ideal places and that is the point, because as we know, utopia is nowhere, it is a destination that will never be reached. Maybe it is what will be left when Earth will be eaten by the Sun one day...

The songs we chose use poetry, mood, and nostalgic reference to capture the bittersweetness of our utopia.  We also make a point to center BIPOC, queer&trans, and women artists.  Needless to say, our utopia is post-heteropatriarchal, anti-capitalist, and anti-colonial.

As we pooled our music together, we noticed common threads of dissonance as well as resonance; we each found songs to help express the fear and grief surrounding our idealisms.

▣ Can you share some of your individual and collective utopian dreams?

Unsurprisingly, MOLD's shared vision of utopia is tinged with anxiety.  Rather than focus on an escapist fantasy land, we all realize that this idea of 'paradise' will still contain darkness.  Our utopia just isn't flat.  This three-dimensionality is in part due to our understanding that utopia cannot be achieved alone; and in the collective forging process, compromise is necessary.  Conflict is something to neither fear nor avoid.  The difficulty and the dedicated work behind building a better future is part of its beauty and richness.  Eden is boring; MOLD's utopia is complex and lush, where the false barrier between 'human' and 'nature' is dissolved.  We collaborate as a part of a global ecosystem, marrying the weirdness of digital futurism with a return to biophilia. 

Today, we dream of the end of the nation-state, of not having to worry about how to pay our health insurance, of a friend who wants to be a mom feeling like she can do it without the fear of being disregarded and stretched too thin, we dream of the return of Native land, of a world without millionaires (let alone billionaires), of forests, and of public toilets being free.


Tracklist:
Ana Roxanne - Rainy Day On The Cosmic Shore
Diane Barbé - Utopia 
Li Yilei - Wei 
Seefeel - As One 
Chas Smith - Beatrix 
rRoxymore - Home Is Where the Music is
Oneohtrix Point Never - Tales From the Trash Stratum
Zbynek Vostrak - scales of light
DJ Sprinkles - Lost Area (June)
Evil Medved - Recording_74
Sarah Davachi - Sybil 
ssabae - Grillons Fm Sonate 
Nala Sinephro - Space 8 
Joanne Christensen, Arlene Dunlap, Richard Dunlap, Garry Eister, Daniel Lentz - Slow Motion Mirror 
Fuga Ronto - Journey Unknown
Rosicrucian - Knives ov Resistance
Healion - I’ll See It When I Believe It
Spivak - Make It Make Sense
Cibo Matto - Sugar Water 
Golden Ivy - Klappen
Harold Budd - To Begin Then Not Now 
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Under Your Always Light (Howie Beck, Jason Collett Remix)

Our Tomorrow w/ Mold Collective (Berlin)

@8salamanda8 is a Seoul-based Leftfield Ambient music producer/DJ duo of @umantherma (Sala) and @yetsuby (Manda).

Salamanda believes every sound has beauty, and loves to collect and create music from field recordings of the world around them.

✱ What is the inspiration and vision behind Salamanda?
✴ We started Salamanda with a shared love for ambient, classical & leftfield music, and ever since, it has always been an outlet where we can be free from any rules or restrictions, and just have fun making most of our imaginations. Having fun is key to Salamanda, and we always look for things that make us captivated by fun and silly thoughts.

✱ Can you share a little bit about what you’ve included in this mix and/or your process?
✳ A story of hopes and dreams... and a sense of emptiness. We're delivering this story with some of our unreleased tracks, a track from our friend Joyul's recent release, and a gorgeous theremin piece called Oraison by our music guru O. Messiaen.

✱ What are some of your individual and collective utopian dreams?
✴ Sala: No border, no gender, no ethnicity, one love!
✴ Manda: A world where the strong give their full support for the weak.

G.Ligeti - String Quartet No. 1 (Métamorphoses nocturnes): [...] molto sostenuto - Andante tranquillo
I.Stravinski - Rite of Spring - Act I : Introduction
Edward Givens - Batik
Phew / Oren Ambarchi / Jim O'Rourke - Patience Soup Part 1 (excerpt)
Joyul - A Stage (Ulla Remix)
Hmot - Somniloquist
Joseph Shabason - Deep Dark Divide
Polido - Resineiro
Groove Armada - At The River
Domenique Dumont - Un Jour Avec Yusef
Salamanda - ??????????????
Salamanda - ??????????????2
Giant Claw - Soft Channel 006
Robin Saville - All Who Are Not On The Rock Are In The Sea
Undulating Contours - Bird’s Language
John Williams - Carol Of The Bells (Voice)
Hawsepiper - Long Crossing
TRAINING - Winken
No Translation - Moon Hours
Craig Leon - Departure
Dialect - Holon
Olivier Messiaen - Oraison

Our Tomorrow feat. Salamanda (Seoul)

RAN PARK (@ranparkmusic) is a brilliant friend, activist, and pianist/multi-instrumentalist based in Seattle, WA.

✱ What is the inspiration and vision behind RAN PARK?

RAN PARK as a project is my way of saying yes to the child in us. I'm interested in the healing properties of music -- specifically, how it grants us access into the hidden parts of our being, and how it encourages us to embody fuller expressions of the many identities we carry, even/especially the parts of ourselves that may seem contradicting. I see this sort of acknowledgment of our complexities as an important step towards healing generational trauma. Sonically, it means I welcome musical influences of all kinds. I'm exploring how those sounds intermingle with my personal history, and I'm finding delight in creating new contexts for them. 

✱ Can you share a little bit about what you’ve included in this mix? 

RAN PARK: I've included old and new experiments in composition and rhythm. Thankfully this project could house vast explorations! You'll hear passages ranging from symphonic to classical, jazz, electronic, and some trance-inducing meditations. Two composers that I'm deeply indebted to are Ennio Morricone and Ryuichi Sakamoto. There are some tracks in this mix that are unabashedly aspirational and attempt to follow the shadows of these maestros. 

Slowfoam: I've also included some unreleased Slowfoam tracks and some songs off a forthcoming EP by myself and Neilll ~ an incredible ambient/experimental multi-instrumentalist based in LA. The mix evolved into a slightly dystopic soundscape that encourages wanderings away from clamoring cities and back into the stillness of the natural world.

✱ What are some of your utopian dreams?

RAN PARK: My personal understanding of utopia is a world and existence in which our differences, shadow parts, and discomforts can be acknowledged without fear. 

Slowfoam: Mine exist tangentially to this world, but we're more closely connected to the ecosystems we take part in, as well as ourselves and each other. Similar to RAN PARK's, vulnerability, imperfection, and growth are innate and supported equitably. 

✱ Any exciting things we can look forward to from RAN PARK in 2022?

Several fruitful collaborations, including this one! With regards to my own work, expect more music beyond solo piano.

Our Tomorrow w/ RAN PARK (Seattle) & Slowfoam (Berlin)

@pablodiserens is an artist, field recordist, composer, filmmaker and photographer based in Berlin (Germany) who engages with various topo- and phonographies with a wide range of visual and sonic recording techniques. 

✱ What is the inspiration and vision behind your music as Pablo Diserens?
My work is sparked by the world’s biomes and the non-human manifestations they shelter. With attentive and deep listening at the forefront of my practice, I navigate through environments mainly all ears and collect sounds through a plethora of recording techniques. I work with and share these sonic encounters with the aim of shifting people’s perspective and relationship with their surroundings and their neighbouring bio— and geologies. In other words, my work is an attempt at questioning and rethinking our place and caring for the globe’s habitats and communities.

✱What are some of your utopian dreams & musings?
My ideal utopia is one where interspecies kinship, caring and understanding are honoured. One where language isn’t only thought of as articulated speech, but instead understood as the numerous forms of communication, expression, and knowledge sharing that exist in the world’s ecologies. One where we listen to what moss, mollusks, insects, ice, and stones have to say. One where we pay attention. One where this language is punctuated and vitalized by possible hums.

✱ Can you share a little bit about what you’ve included in this mix?
In response to the dreamed utopia mentioned above, I’ve intertwined various animal, plant, and geological sonic manifestations with dronesque and electroacoustic gestures. Human speech makes a few appearances but either in honour of the stones or as purely deconstructed acoustic matter. It is animals, plants, and water that talk the most in this mix.

✱ Any forthcoming happenings for you in 2022 you'd like to share?
There are some exciting projects coming up this year. Some of them involve releases of electroacoustic pieces on A.V.A. and my label forms of minutiae, warm collaborations with loved ones, and if everything goes well the finalisation of my first short film since 2016.

Our Tomorrow w/ Pablo Diserens (Berlin)

◍ What is the inspiration and vision behind Neilll? 
● Neilll is an outlet for me to experiment with and appreciate the otherwise unnoticed sounds in my life. Neilll is a place for me to be free and formless with my expression, exempt from expectation. 

◍ What are some of your utopian dreams?
● I think my utopian dreams have to do with being able to exist without the constant dread of making money or trying to prove my capital worth to people. I think utopia is a hard concept for me because I am deeply cynical, but at the very least I have a dream of one day not worrying about healthcare or rent… I guess just something better than the present.

◍ Can you share a little bit about what you’ve included in this mix?
● This mix is full of what I’ve been listening to a lot in 2022! Some older stuff and some new stuff.
 
◍ Any exciting things we can look forward to from Neilll in 2022?
● I have an album coming out with Slowfoam hopefully sometime in 2022! I also have a few concepts in mind for other Neilll projects, so stay on the lookout!

Tracklist:
Gway Lo - Triad God 
Plonk I - Huerco S. 
Playing with Sublimity - Neilll and Slowfoam
Ibiza - Racine
Grube - Phil Struck 
77xiu-point9 - pent
Bellwether - John Object
Guts - Mitchell Keaney
Array - Page
Papillion - exael
Bleak Chain - city & i.o
Bet League - Serwed
Helio’s Trip - JJ + JS

Our Tomorrow w/ Neilll (Los Angeles)

https://www.nts.live/shows/post-geography/episodes/post-geography-24th-march-2022

SVETLANA MARAŠ - VI
BEKØ - ne felejts
KATARINA GRYVUL - Rozpad
JUNG DJ - Bitcoin
ENDLESSWATERS無限の海  - Warmsand暑い砂
ECO FUTURISM CORPORATION - N-ый мистер
NUEEN - Path Ft Gerard Sun
TIME WHARP - Ingenue
RHUCLE  - Mainspring
SLOWFOAM & PABLO DISERENS - Ice On Ice
YOLABMI  - VIII
SLOWFOAM & NEILLL - Unreleased
SELENE - Selene’s Secret Garden
Z N O - Cybloom
OTHER JOE - Interior Music 08
YOU’LL NEVER GET TO HEAVEN - Dust
PENT - Annular Proto Sep
PHILIP JECK  - Chime, Chime
ANDREW PEKLER - Los Jardines

@postgeography w/ Slowfoam aired March 24, 2022

Post-Geography w/ Slowfoam on NTS

@weich-berlin 7th Edition
collaboratively organized by @willis-anne and @anepicdope
at Kwia Berlin ~

Slowfoam at Weich X Lan 31.03.2022

Living Room is a monthly event in Lisbon & bi-weekly mix series collectively run by @eneko_zarazua @asiootus @ca_rolf @usofusofusofusof

◍ What is the inspiration and vision behind Living Room?
* Bringing people together, giving people space to communicate through music and around music, cultivating a sense of community in Lisbon, and a feeling of connectedness with artists we love nearby and faraway.
* One of the biggest inspirations to start was probably Cosmos as a venue. The homey and friendly atmosphere fit naturally with the music we were sharing with each other at the time, and it gave us a place to share that with others too. During the pandemic, it also become one of the few places where people felt safe to come enjoy music, and that also informed the kind of music we played, and the artists we've been inviting to perform. We're also growing and learning together. They're like our little plot of soil.

◍ What are some of your collective utopian dreams?
* To keep sustainably being able to bring artists we hold so dearly to Lisbon in the fluid DIY manner we’ve been doing so far, and continue to grow the local Living Room community which includes a lot of our friends and people of the local ambient scene. It’s something not only for us as a collective but also for those around us.
* It feels really special to be able to create this space for people to come together and enjoy music that you might not normally find when going out to a gig or to a night. People know they can come and just hang out, get comfy, and sink into some lovely sounds. It feels rare, and we're grateful to be able to keep doing it. Maybe our utopian dreams are already here?
* If all goes well we’ll soon have friendship bracelets available for all the lovely people around us:)

◍ Can you share a little bit about what you’ve included in this mix?
* We tried to include a lot of artists that are inspiring for Living Room and for us individually, and also recent finds that we want to keep exploring.


◍ Any exciting things in the near future for Living Room?
* We’re bringing some artists from the 3XL crew next month and doing our first club night, besides the monthly cosmos event. It will be our most busy month yet and we are crazy excited!

nueen ____ Cloaked
Pontiac Streator ____ Transier Unt
Kaho Matsui ____ out
OCA ____ I Believe In You
ulla & pontiac streator (feat MWW) ____ iggy
Palta ____ Belsha
Max Stephens ____ v
Pun Collins ____ Burning Hope
Accalmie ____ A l'intérieur
Aires ____ @cherry
Carmen Villain ____ Sometimes I love you forever
hoodie ____ justin
Nikolay Kozlov ____ trees
Nick Malkin ____ slow day II
innerinnerlife ____ you coexist
Walton ____ Aerophonic
DRONE OPERATØR ____ Cages
Pascäal ____ Pigeon Pose

Our Tomorrow w/ Living Room (Lisbon)

@mitaminelab is an artist-run contemporary sound archive and curatorial project by Alma G. Ferrer 'Mim' @mimilk - an art historian and culture curator currently working and living in Mexico City.
▸ mitaminelab.org

◍ What is the inspiration and vision behind your work as Mim and Mitamine Lab?
▹ Inspiration comes from culture in general and different forms of representations in the artistic field, contemplating music as the intersections of culture, politics, and economics, but also as an empowering composition that can be translated to colors, forms and different kinds of emotions. 

◍ What are some of your utopian dreams?
▹ Would be lovely to imagine a world where the creative labor is a main source of income, yeah, we know that art has a lot of interests involved, in specific the art market with problems related to shady businesses, tax shelters, scams and money laundering —between other more polemic situations—, but we also know that art has the power to change the world as an independent structure that operates focused on the expression of human creativity. One of my utopian dreams of course is to live in a world where society is guided by romantic impulses, consciousness and community building, as Rudolf Steiner says, as thinkers ready to explore experiences of the inner, psychic and soul life; a dream of liberation.

◍ Can you share a little bit about what you’ve included in this mix?
▹ As a selector I always enjoy to mix different types of music to create a very specific soundscape, going from folk and sweet ambient music to the most saturated avant garde noise. This is an ode to the amazing existing potential in human knowledge and the processes of transformation we are starting to experience. I’m starting with some 70’s krautrock and some contemporary ambient gems by producers like Zeitgeist & Tucceri, Nikolaienko, Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice. You will also listen to one of my favorite genres of all time, opera, including a track called ‘Nezahuacoyotl’ by Melesio Morales (1838-1908) father of Latin America Opera. This mix also includes Ariel Kalma, Ground, HERBARIUM, Gaël Segalen, Mira Calix, and more. Hope you like :)

◍ Any exciting things in the near future for yourself and Mitamine Lab?
▹ I’m not really sure, I was working on an EP but I have been busy being adult and the inspiration has gone, I’m starting a collaborative second hand store (just digital for the moment)… the main idea is to reflect about recycling and processes of material exchange. 
This year I've been exploring materials cause I’m planning to produce some artworks by myself and other talented artists (currently working in the funding and resources to make that happen, hope so).

Our Tomorrow w/ Mim/Mitamine Lab (Mexico City)

Sally Decker & Briana Marela - You are here now
Pablo Diserens - live at Kwia 
lipsticism - every wave belongs 
doun - hidden mass ft. taupe set xl
Sally Decker & Briana Marela - Light initiated from the center
TIBSLC - IMG_9114
Fortresses - Eve
Ellis Latham-Brown - Interlaken Park 2
Marine Drouan - Side B - Windy Night at the Harbour
JQ - No Answer 
Kensho Nakamara - Kaii
E. Varius - Up In Toby’s Room
Taranoya - grief 
Neilll - Excogitation  
DB Looper - Skinwalker (Ft. Galaxy Express 555)
Slowfoam - Sundews
Pablo Diserens - Barbiano (IT), 04/25/2022, 6.32 pm
Sebastiano Carghini - Emotional Part
A Psychic Yes - cloud 1
Huerco S. - Plonk X (submitted by Miles Fortune)
Sally Decker & Briana Marela - Where you land
Privacy Settings - Starburst At The Zoo, June 1992 
Thom Lucero - The Trees
Mitch Stahlmann - Comet Jo

Our Tomorrow w/ Slowfoam & Friends

@ecology141 / @kiiberborea from 15:25 on 

Please donate to citizens of Ukraine if you can 
❤ PayPal: kiiberborea@gmail.com ❤

“The situation in Ukraine is very difficult. Some people have lost access to food and drinking water, some people have lost their homes and jobs, some children have lost their parents. So we have come together for a series of music streams on YouTube to help people affected by the war. All funds raised will be used to purchase essential goods for civilians. Income and cost reports will be provided.”

Our Tomorrow with ecology141 / kiiberborea (Odesa, Ukraine)

◍ What is the inspiration and vision behind your work as Nexcyia?
✹ The Nexcyia project has always been focused on experimental/ambient music. I think the inspiration and vision changes seasonally! I have moments where I focus on themes of alienation, loneliness and vulnerability and then I have points in time where my compositions are bit more free-flowing and minimal almost with a more illbient / dubby side. I’ve been adding more beats recently but currently feel like recording relaxed soundscapes for reading, walking, chilling and cooking.

◍ Describe some of your utopian dreams for us *･ﾟ:⋆*･ﾟ
✹ Well this is an interesting question because between 2015-2017 I had an obsession with “Astral Projections” and/or “Outer Body Experiences, (OBE)” I did some crazy research and was able to initiate these experiences! I think the most intense one was of me flying around my room and trying to break-out of my window! lol

◍ Any exciting things coming up that you’d like to share?
✹ Couple cool things coming up! I’m starting 3-month Residency at Noods Radio end of August - in September got 4 shows! 3 in London and one in Oslo, Norway. I’ve never been to Norway so i’m super excited.

Our Tomorrow w/ Nexcyia (London)

Sun An - A NEW WAVE
Alexi Baris - CHLOROPHYLL
CEP - Window Seat
Rhucle - Sui
ごん三 - ≧[ﾟ ﾟ]≦ (feat. Kutabile太郎)
Ulla - Stunned Suddenly
sv1 - regenerator 
J - a healing tear (Laila Sakini version)
Erik Truffaz - Un souffle qui passe
Maggi Payne - Back to Forth
Roberto Musci - Water Music
Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Cin
clearing - my first casio
Ben Vida + Lea Bertucci - A Flared Margin
one-four - zen for tv
Gi Gi - Plantings
Sarah Davachi - Alas, Departing
Masahiro Takahashi - Dive Deeply
pam3 - mixed signals
Lyra Pramuk - Cradle (Patience Rework)
Infant - Pulling a Piece (TIBSLC Pain Drift Ease Remix)
Roberto Cacciapaglia (The Ann Steel Album) - Sparkling World

Our Tomorrow w/ Slowfoam

Slowfoam & Neilll - Compression, Resurrection

Grant Chapman - JUST BAD DREAMS
èvia - SLUMBER
Alexandra Spence - RAIN
diane barbé - BUT WOULD YOU EAT ONE
Infant - LATTICER (GOO AGE REMIX)
Sally Decker & Briana Marela - WHEN IT LENGTHENS
Yuto Takei - RAIN LINES
Tournesol - HOLY COW
ISOR29 - TRANSITION (DESCARGA MIX)
downstairs J - SYMBIOSIS
Salamanda - RUMBLE BUMBLE
Purelink - SLOW & STEADY RUSH (FEAT. GI GI)
Stone - SEEDLING
HCMJ - BIRDS
Basses Terres and Myako - OISEAU SERPENT
Foodman - HOSHIKUZU TENBOUDAI
INVT - SOAKIN
Gi Gi - LILTED SONG
windowseeker - CRUMBLE CRACK DAWN SONG
Oceanic - KXT
Patrick Shiroishi & Dustin Wong - が砕けて
Action Sports - CUBIVORED
黑芝麻 (Hēi zhī ma) 莎瑜 (ShaYu) - SURPRISED AGAIN

February

Slowfoam | HÖR | Feb 20 2023

Chantssss invite Slowfoam — Slowfoam

from 'The Blue Hour', Somewhere Press, 2023

V/A compilation featuring Dania, Mondlane, Velvachell, santebela, Angelina Nonaj, Anit Levan, Astrid Øster Mortensen, Adela Mede, Chantal Michelle, Slowfoam and Man Rei

Out on cassette and digital formats with an accompanying publication.
Distribution by Boomkat

@somewherepress

Released by:
Somewhere Press
Release date:
19 September 2023

The Blue Hour

Intimation

Slowfoam - INDEX:Records Takeover [15.10.2023]

from 'Transcorporal Portal', forthcoming on Somewhere Press
@slowfoam

Transcorporeal Portal

Video

Slowfoam - Like Phantom Memories in the Slinking Storm

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/xpone-10-slowfoam
https://slowfoam.bandcamp.com
https://madelynbyrd.com

https://soundcloud.com/xpo_ne

Xpone

Xpone 10 – Slowfoam

Worlding With Earth releases December 6, 2023 on Mappa 

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Composed, recorded and mixed by Madelyn Byrd (Slowfoam)
slowfoam.bandcamp.com

Recorded in London and Berlin in 2022 and 2023, with field recordings from Croatia, in 2020
Saxophone and Accompaniment by Sarah Allada

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
abdonoval.com

Cover art by Johanna Bath
www.johannabath.de

Layout and text by Basia Strzeżek
www.instagram.com/balbinka_s/

Words by Tristan Bath
Photography by Zoltan Czakó

Released by mappa as MAP041 in 2023

Phantom Memories, Iambic Limbs

from 'Transcorporal Portal', out now on Somewhere Press
@slowfoam

Bandcamp

Slowfoam - Divine Morpho, Shimmering (feat. RAN PARK)

We’re very proud to share this new chapter of our Podcast Series with you today ~ an intricate, immersive and deeply sensitive hour of experimental ambient and electronica recorded by Slowfoam 🪸

Madelyn Byrd aka Slowfoam is a Berlin-based artist working at the intersections of hydrofeminism and neuroaesthetics, an exploration into uncanny interactions between ecology and technology. They are a vital presence within the landscape of modern queer experimentation, utilizing complex digital processing techniques to dream up spellbinding microscopic worlds made up of synthetic sounds and field recordings 🪼

In a tone of their releases, Slowfoam delivers an hour of poised, seductive story-telling embedded in electro-acoustic experimentation and glistening textural ambient, building up into low-slung rhythmical momentum before wrapping up with a heart-warming conclusion 🩵

Sounds by @slowfoam
Visions by @marcomaldarella

TRACKLIST:
Infant - Part and Parcel
Leena Joshi - I Remember
Mondlane - Solstice
Nakayama Munetoshi - reflect
Lucy Railton - Suzy In Spectrum
Rory Salter - Scored Guard
Carme López - IV: CACHELOS. A César de Farbán
Ka Baird - Gate VII
games - 9.0
Bauer + Katharina Schmidt - Pillars
Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet - Ornière
Eden Aurelius - Want 2
qwqwqwqw - The Simulant
Ka Baird - Gate II
helen island - dressed to shine
tibslc - rainy
innerinnerlife - ILYSM

Podcast Series 43 | Slowfoam

from the album "Lust+Boredom"
Released on Jungle Gym Records November 2018

Photo by Rachel Sharpe

lowbone

St. Augustine

A collection of field recordings my partner and I made during the first month of living in the same city led to a series of spontaneous tracks—created over the span of a week—capturing the whimsical and explorative nature of our days together.

This is the one of ~fifteen tracks (we each made one side of the tape 46 min tape!)

Tapes will be available for our slowfoam/Painter winter tour (Dec. 7 - Jan. 8)

~ official ep release show/digital downloads available on January 8th ~

Voice memos recorded by Madelyn Byrd & Thom Lucero
Track created and mixed by Madelyn Byrd
Mastering by William Voje

Photo by Ellis Latham-Brown

LEBENSFREUDE

{{ I'm wading through a sleepy winter but I'm dreaming of sun ripened fruit, salty skin, & sweaty earth }}

Maybe You Shouldn't Live Here In The Winter Mix

A Robe & Silk Pajamas - Scenes From A Dream
Out November 25, 2019 on Jungle Gym Records
Photo by Ellis Latham-Brown

[JGT38] "Scenes From A Dream"

A Robe & Silk Pajamas

This is a cathartic, fear-based sound collage about the decade to come, post-humanism, and cycles

A vessel you can see through, a vessel you can hold. What can the hand hold? What can’t it? What can the future hold? Always destroying a myriad of possibilities to create the one we actually get. When destruction outweighs creation. It’s all about balance, isn’t it? But: destruction as creation, and vice versa. The sky stays blue while the sun carves a hole in it. Space is space, but space is filled up, and patterns emerge regardless. Voices leap out, discordant sometimes. What is the opposite of discordant? Things crackle in the night. Is there such a thing as opposite? Textures, like bubble wrap. Unsettling and satisfying. Are we making this up as we go? Of course. Something whistles at you.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/cPfHIxHJyxc

I'm Worried About The Future!

Slippery (demo)

Digital Download and Limited Edition Cassette available here: tinyurl.com/rh7gckj

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Scenes From A Dream", official return of the illustrious slowfoam (Madelyn Byrd). From the breathtaking abstractions of debut "lust + boredom", Byrd pushes even further towards the avant-garde, an artist at the peak of their creative power with a unique and developed voice that is at once timely and timeless. Here whispered synthetic microcosms are meticulously refined with a palate of chamber woodwind flourishes, precision field recordings and heavily processed vocal passages, woven together by the life-flow vignettes of rippling pools and instinctual momentum. From a place of both high art and universal accessibility, JGT38 finds grandiosity in the smallest of gestures... exclusively for JUNGLE GYM.

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*magic wall, a crash & burn scenario and seronde ft. neilll @timbomberg

Seronde

Magic Wall feat. Neilll

Pixel Sea

~.~*~.~ (Spring)

“I made this mix to pay tribute to nostalgic memories of what monsoons in the Sonoran Desert used to be. Long, blindingly hot, dry days would stretch out as the storm clouds built in the distance, waiting for the stinging sun to cool just enough. The first sign that they were moving in was the smell of sweet creosote and wet dirt in the air, and then, in a matter of moments, torrential downpour. From the top of a mountain, you could see the clouds moving swiftly around the valley and lightning striking every couple seconds. The rains let up as quickly as they came on. It was epic, it was moody, and it was always a sweet relief to be happily soaked by these dense storms. This June was the hottest on record in the desert, and monsoons have been scarce. I’m mourning the impact we’ve had on the natural cycles of the larger, older world, and simultaneously celebrating with hope for what was and what could be again.” - Madelyn aka Slowfoam

Tracklist:
Ennio Morricone - For A Few Dollars More
Oval - Store Check
Aïsha Devi - Time (tool)
Mister Water Wet - Drought
Beatriz Ferreyra - Huellas Entreveradas
Abul Mogard - Slate-Coloured Storm
Eli Kessler - Corresponding Probably to Quanta
Maggi Payne - Shimmer
Ennio Morricone - Face to Face
Alexi Baris - Pertaining to our Nature
Beatriz Ferreyra - Echos
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround 9
Beatrice Dillon - Clouds Strum
Bernard Parmegiani - Geologie Sonore
Bernard Parmegiani - Points Centre Champa
Caterina Barbieri - Virgo Rebellion (Lucy Remix)
IVVY - are you there god it’s made
Iona Fortune - Da You
IVVY - is it time for dinner (loss of clock)
Elysia Crampton - Secret Ravine
Elysia Crampton - Dog Clouds
Eli Kessler - No Iodine, No Breeze
Lucrecia Dalt - Seca
Kane Ikin & David Wenngren - Swell
MHYSA - breaker of chains
Ellen Fullman - Dripping Music

Above The Clouds is an exploration of cloudscapes: soundtrack-like odes to all aspects of the nebular, from their emotional register to their physical properties. Katiusha’s 90-minute cloud-waves ponder these mysterious combinations of water particles in all their depth: the promises, hope and foreboding they inspire, how our dreams are projected into their endlessly shifting forms. Expect music as diverse as the subject matter which inspires it.

M0ns00n MiX- Cashmere Radio - Above The Clouds #16 w/ Slowfoam

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Slowfoam is the all-encompassing sound project of Berlin-based Madelyn Byrd. Their aqueous world is an amalgam of playfulness, discomfort, and sentimentality, alchemizing glitched-out, sparkling ambience, obfuscated pop, electro-acoustics, drone, processed field recordings, off-kilter polyrhythms, downtempo, & fuzzy poetics. 


live bookings: tim@somewhere.press
contact: slowfoam@gmail.com

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