Based in Berlin, DE
Madelyn (they/them, b. 1992, USA) is a musician, interdisciplinary artist, and educator investigating connection, home, biophilia, and the adjascent possible. Fostering a deeply collaborative spirit, Madelyn engages with socially engaged art, sound, somatics, and digital media to re-construct the perceptual realm and voice emergent patterns of interconnection. Their research-intensive approach to practice balances playful, unbound creativity with scholarship, positioning them at the fringes of DIY communities and academia.
Madelyn holds a Masters in Neuroaesthetics from Goldsmiths, University of London, where they researched the impact of collaborative imagination on measures of connection and hope in social praxis art. They teach sonic worldbuilding theory + music production courses, recently online with Soundial and in-person at Kwia in Berlin. They produce, perform, and DJ under the genre-defying music moniker, Slowfoam, amalgamates material sources - electroacoustics, found drones, spoken word, field recording, and sound design - into speculative relics from the aqueous deep. Madelyn is the co-founder of Gravity Pleasure, a record label and event series that highlights the intersection of hydrofeminism and queer ecology with music and workshops by women, trans, and non-binary artists.
As “Chimera,” a duo with collaborator Lou Croff Blake, they embark on projects that push the boundaries around what it means to be a citizen of Earth, merging artistic embodied experiments with science and fantasy. In 2025, duo’s speculative worlding manifests in projects at AADK's Cruce program (funded by The Goethe Institute’s Culture Moves Europe grant) and School of Commons’ peer learning program (located at Zürich University of the Arts).