why we love this
A stream of fluid glitches inside a hydro-matrix, coursing through the hydraulics of a cyborg. While the record is inherently digital in sound, Slowfoam explores how the hyper-digital can transcend its limits to become a living, breathing entity.
about the record
Madelyn Byrd’s practice is built on the intersections of hydrofeminism and neuroaesthetics, an exploration into uncanny interactions between ecology and technology. Under their Slowfoam moniker, they have produced a string of intoxicating EPs, synergizing acoustic and synthetic sounds. In a mutated evolution from 2000’s glitch and micro-tonal experimentalism, Slowfoam’s queered ambience oozes with sensual tactility, an effervescent gurgling of digitally processed organic material.
On their debut LP, Transcorporeal Portal, aqueous field recordings are stretched, compressed, and elongated into a symphony of celestial purls, smudging all sense of time. Digital ripples are traced by murmurs of the body: the steady pulse of a heartbeat and the intimate breath of whispered words.
Slowfoam embraces the glossy tonality of the hyper-digital, metamorphosing samples through deep manipulation. Sounds are sequenced in intricate arrangements like branching fractals of living organisms, with complex patterns forming at every scale. This process, layered and enigmatic, evokes the unfathomable processing of AI algorithms, offering prophetic glimpses inside the shimmering portal.
Through all the digital rendering, there’s a profound vitality to their sound, evident in the immensely rich source material. Collaborator Pablo Diserens, founder of the forms of minutiae imprint, contributes exquisite, esoteric field sounds, too strange to be fictional: bubbling sulfur pools, gushing glacial streams, and the intense, shrill calls of krías (birds of death), interlacing the record with mythical wonder. Elsewhere, recordings are sourced from the delicate thrum of a hand-made lyre harp, the spiritual flute playing of Diane Barbé, and the digital instrumentation of composer Ran Park.
From the rumbling inception of "Enlightened Smudge on the Machine," Slowfoam’s sound world erupts into life in rapture, like sparkling light through opalescent glass. As quickly as they appear, these heightened reverberations decay, revealing the deep depths below the surface, radiant drones drifting and rolling eternally. The allure of these unadorned drones evokes altered states of consciousness, a full-body tingling of erotic synesthesia. There is a meticulous balance in the way sounds materialize and disintegrate, hypnotizing in their free-flowing sway.
Byrd describes their creative process as resonant with the alchemic manifesto "solve et coagula," and Transcorporeal Portal is teeming with the remnants of former encrypted layers that were ripped away. They find catharsis in the transformative cycles of regeneration, reconstructing their narratives with a tender embrace of the present through interconnection with the fluttering of life in the here and now.
- 1 - Enlightened Smudge on the Machine (feat. Diane Barbé) 5:03
- 2 - Divine Morpho, Shimmering (feat. RAN PARK) 7:54
- 3 - Evapotranspiration 4:16
- 4 - Like Phantom Memories in the Slinking Storm 4:37
- 5 - Grief Rituals 1:24
- 6 - Somniferous, Like a Piquant Crescent 6:10
- 7 - Fragrantly Dusking 2:41
- 8 - Soft Body Viridescence 5:09
- 9 - Of Data & Delight 4:18
- 10 - Savor it 2:31
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- 1 - Enlightened Smudge on the Machine (feat. Diane Barbé) 5:03
- 2 - Divine Morpho, Shimmering (feat. RAN PARK) 7:54
- 3 - Evapotranspiration 4:16
- 4 - Like Phantom Memories in the Slinking Storm 4:37
- 5 - Grief Rituals 1:24
- 6 - Somniferous, Like a Piquant Crescent 6:10
- 7 - Fragrantly Dusking 2:41
- 8 - Soft Body Viridescence 5:09
- 9 - Of Data & Delight 4:18
- 10 - Savor it 2:31
why we love this
A stream of fluid glitches inside a hydro-matrix, coursing through the hydraulics of a cyborg. While the record is inherently digital in sound, Slowfoam explores how the hyper-digital can transcend its limits to become a living, breathing entity.
about the record
Madelyn Byrd’s practice is built on the intersections of hydrofeminism and neuroaesthetics, an exploration into uncanny interactions between ecology and technology. Under their Slowfoam moniker, they have produced a string of intoxicating EPs, synergizing acoustic and synthetic sounds. In a mutated evolution from 2000’s glitch and micro-tonal experimentalism, Slowfoam’s queered ambience oozes with sensual tactility, an effervescent gurgling of digitally processed organic material.
On their debut LP, Transcorporeal Portal, aqueous field recordings are stretched, compressed, and elongated into a symphony of celestial purls, smudging all sense of time. Digital ripples are traced by murmurs of the body: the steady pulse of a heartbeat and the intimate breath of whispered words.
Slowfoam embraces the glossy tonality of the hyper-digital, metamorphosing samples through deep manipulation. Sounds are sequenced in intricate arrangements like branching fractals of living organisms, with complex patterns forming at every scale. This process, layered and enigmatic, evokes the unfathomable processing of AI algorithms, offering prophetic glimpses inside the shimmering portal.
Through all the digital rendering, there’s a profound vitality to their sound, evident in the immensely rich source material. Collaborator Pablo Diserens, founder of the forms of minutiae imprint, contributes exquisite, esoteric field sounds, too strange to be fictional: bubbling sulfur pools, gushing glacial streams, and the intense, shrill calls of krías (birds of death), interlacing the record with mythical wonder. Elsewhere, recordings are sourced from the delicate thrum of a hand-made lyre harp, the spiritual flute playing of Diane Barbé, and the digital instrumentation of composer Ran Park.
From the rumbling inception of "Enlightened Smudge on the Machine," Slowfoam’s sound world erupts into life in rapture, like sparkling light through opalescent glass. As quickly as they appear, these heightened reverberations decay, revealing the deep depths below the surface, radiant drones drifting and rolling eternally. The allure of these unadorned drones evokes altered states of consciousness, a full-body tingling of erotic synesthesia. There is a meticulous balance in the way sounds materialize and disintegrate, hypnotizing in their free-flowing sway.
Byrd describes their creative process as resonant with the alchemic manifesto "solve et coagula," and Transcorporeal Portal is teeming with the remnants of former encrypted layers that were ripped away. They find catharsis in the transformative cycles of regeneration, reconstructing their narratives with a tender embrace of the present through interconnection with the fluttering of life in the here and now.
