Transcorporeal Portal, by Slowfoam

Transcorporeal Portal

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1.	Enlightened Smudge on the Machine (feat. Diane Barbé) 05:03	buy track
2.	Divine Morpho, Shimmering (feat. RAN PARK) 07:53	buy track
3.	Evapotranspiration 04:16	buy track
4.	Like Phantom Memories in the Slinking Storm 04:37	buy track
5.	Grief Rituals 01:24	buy track
6.	Somniferous, Like a Piquant Crescent 06:09	buy track
7.	Fragrantly Dusking 02:40	buy track
8.	Soft Body Viridescence 05:09	buy track
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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 of 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 sulphur 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 materialise and disintegrate, hypnotizing in their free-flowing sway.

Byrd describes their creative process as resonant with the alchemic manifesto ‘solve et coagula’ and Transcoporeal 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.

“Degenerate to regenerate, rend to reconstruct, in art, and in life. All circles back to Earth, and our exuberant fidelity to the Now, the Here, and the Tomorrow. Slowfoam teaches us that speculative melting yields radical presencing.” - Lou Croff Blake

credits

released March 15, 2024

Music composed and produced by Madelyn Byrd.
Flute on track 1 by Diane Barbé.
Multi-instrumental accompaniment on track 2 by Sharon Ran Park.
Field Recordings from Blanca, Spain by Madelyn Byrd.
Field Recordings from Mylokopi, Greece by Madelyn Byrd and Pablo Diserens.
Field Recordings from Iceland by Pablo Diserens.
Mixed by Madelyn Byrd.
Mastered by Rashad Becker.

Photography by Somewhere Press.
Centre Labels by Ebb Bayley.
Insert text by Lou Croff Blake.
Design by Musheto Fernandez.
Distributed by Boomkat.

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Record label exploring emotive sound work and queering notions of experimental music and print. Sub-label Somewhere Between Tapes.

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