madelyn byrd

on may 24th we are hosting a sunday full of live music from a selection of our Berlin-based artists, alongside a couple of favourite international acts. we’re super lucky to have everyone on board shaping something perfect for the chin-scratchers, head-rollers, and slack-jawed braindancers. forget shoegaze, navelgaze, immersive haze but bring on the squinted-gaze: that feeling of “I’m struggling to perceive everything I’m hearing, but I like it.” a new kind of bassface haha, for the ambi club deep-listeners. we encourage you to leave the pretension at home and come chill, but without the need for nonchalance.

𝓜𝓮𝓭𝓲𝓬𝓲𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓽𝓲𝓮𝓼 🦪🌊🪨🪺🫧 Gravity Pleasure welcomes Maude Vôs for their most intimate EP offering to date, Medicinal Properties. Dripping in serenity and grounded in connection, Medicinal Properties is a musical elixir concocted with the healing modalities of the natural world and derived from the intentional planting and nurturing of sapphic seeds. Through minor modes, swimming cinematics and mineral rich textures, Vôs traverses an ecosystem of sensuality and bonding, a symbiotic journey of long distance love colored and shaped by their affinity for the earth. Taking root in California and continuing through Ireland, Iceland, and Montreal, the EP translates this cross-continental connection by blurring the lines of timezones, genres and natural landscapes. Inspired by sea swims, country oyster cottages, diner pancakes, snow flurries, geothermal soaks, mossy mornings and adventures to igneous formations, Vôs invites you to experience this potent body of work, which forms the harmonious emotional bedrock of both kinship and creation. A1. Orr Kore A2. Sap Sanctuary A3. Jasmine Season B1. Endless Fliuch B2. Interior Alloy B3. Swimming Sarahnade (ft. Sarah Gilligan) Written & produced by Maude Vôs Mixed by @danny_goliger Mastered by @estle.phase Art by @miu_._._._ Merchandising by @slowfoam Project Management by @_slyn___ Released by @gravitypleasure PR by @goodchild.promotions Words by Maude Vôs & @janus.rose Distribution by @rubadubgla Pressing by @intakt_vinyl Early support by @batu_timedance @objekttt @dub_athlete @djmagofficial @_wearestudio @minimal_collective

꧁ Next Thursday, May 14 🫧 at kwia! Join us in Berlin's favorite sonic womb for an evening of immersive & cozy listening to celebrate the release of Maude Vôs - Medicinal Properties (GP02) ꧂ live sets by: Maude Vôs (@the_sound_sculptress ) 𓈒𓏸 slyn (@_slyn___ ) 𓈒𓏸 DJ sets by: kc (@_kc______________ ) 𓈒𓏸 ophélie (@ophelieeeee__ ) 𓈒𓏸 starts at 8pm 10-15€ at the door

We are so excited to announce merchandise for Medicinal Properties by Maude Vôs: the ‘Handmade Molten Pearl Necklace’ made by the incredibly talented Zie Sowden (@ziesowdenstudios ). “hand crafted with care, each pendant is unique. as unique as the pearls themselves. each follows its own form, the metal surrounding the pearl follows its natural curves and indentations. the pearl creates and follows its own set of natural rules, an earthly amulet is formed. the pearls sits between the clavicle and shines.” - Z.S.S Pendant made out of lead free, skin safe solder with a freshwater pear & chain is stainless steel. Purchase available on Bandcamp. Pendant and chain included but can be used seperately. Purchase includes digital copy of Medicinal Properties by Maude Vôs.

I’m so elated to announce my EP, Medicinal Properties is up for pre-order today on @gravitypleasure . Actualizing this record with @slowfoam and @_slyn___ has been such a dream and I’m beyond grateful for their curation, vision and support. Medicinal Properties is an ecosystem of sensuality, yearning and bonding through sonic ritual and elemental fluidity. This EP is a capsule of harmonic healing, sapphic symbiosis and nature as nourishment. It is growth, it is fruition, it is unity. The first single Orr Kore is out today. This mineral rich morpher coils geothermic basslines and fortified textures, paving way for what’s to come. Limited pressing of 200 is available on Bandcamp. 🪨 A1 Orr Kore 🥞 A2 Sap Sanctuary 🌸 A3 Jasmine Season 💦 B1 Endless Fliuch ⛓️ B2 Interior Alloy 🐚 B3 Swimming Sarahnade (ft. @_feel_thyself_ ) Art & Design: @miu_._._._ Merchandising: @slowfoam Mastering: @estle.phase Mixing: @danny_goliger Words: @the_sound_sculptress & @janus.rose PR: @goodchild.promotions Distribution: @rubadubgla Pressing: @intakt_vinyl

Hello from my beautifully chaotic bedroom studio ✨👣 ✨ Here to share something I’ve been dreaming up for a while! I’m excited to begin offering 1:1 creative mentorship next month 🌸 Over four individualised sessions, I'll support you in aligning and sustaining your creative goals, strategising the technical and practical details, and growing toward an emotionally and spiritually meaningful practice ⚘ I’ll draw on my background in Neuroaesthetics & Positive Psychology, experience teaching 100+ students, 7+ years using Ableton, and the many lessons I’ve learned hustling as a full-time freelance artist. The sessions will be tailored to your current needs, a custom support blend of: ⇴ 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 (project research & development) ⇴ 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 (Ableton, live performance) ⇴ 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 (funding apps, CV, website, portfolio) ⇴ 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥/𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 (making meaningful & authentic work, dreaming into being) ⇴ 𝐚𝐧𝐝/𝐨𝐫 all of the above! ~~~ ⇴ space is 𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 (5-7 spots) ⇴ each spot is for 𝟰 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔, spanning one month ⇴ fees are 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒆 (60-150€/hour for 1-3 hour-long sessions) Amidst these wildly dark times in our tenaciously beautiful existence, I’ve come to find so much joy in teaching & sharing spaces of transmission and growth. I’m humbled and grateful to be able to extend this journey into a more personal and intimate format, and I’m looking forward to connecting and supporting some of you in the process ❦ Get in touch if you're interested! [email protected] 💕💕💕

we are proud to announce our new label 𝙨𝙝𝙪𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙧, an independent platform for sonic explorers from the far-reaching corners of planet earth. founded in 2026 by edi fahlqvist and flo wilson, 𝙨𝙝𝙪𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙧 is focused on connecting electic and boundary-pushing creative communities at the intersection of contemporary sound art, music, dance and moving image. our south node is in aotearoa nz, and our north node is in the swedish Baltic. 𝙨𝙝𝙪𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙧 is rooted in the belief that another world is possible; we just have to build it. our launch celebration will take place at berlin’s iconic listening space, @kwia.berlin , with @gravitypleasure navigator and sonic shapeshifter @slowfoam , Aotearoa ambient collagist and songwriter @c__.cada , and 𝙨𝙝𝙪𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙧 co-conspirators @edifahlqvist and @iamflowilson . doors 20:00 21.04.2026 we hope to see you there xo

🦋 Introducing the instructors for the wonderfully collaborative, 5th iteration of Sonic Worldbuilding and Ableton courses starting next week! There are still a few spots left if you’d like to join us, link in bio 🦋 🦋 Slowfoam (they/them) is a sound-driven artist and educator who interplays the personal, political, and mythical to explore displacement, (re)connection, and transformation. Queering the peripheries of genre, they alchemize the essence of sonic materiality, weaving uncanny reflection zones that bubble with the magic of the in-between. 🦋 Diane Barbé (she/they) explores the intersections of ecology and experimental music, working with field recording as much as with additive synthesis and wind instruments. Her work delves into the manifold practices of musicking, kneading the relationship of sound and time through live looping, stretching and alterations. 🦋 Thom Lucero (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist, archivist, composer, & improvisor based between Berlin and southern France. His work concerns speculative fiction, the Utopian imaginary, humour, and play, as expressed through sound & music practice. 🦋 Pablo Diserens (they/them) is a field recordist and artist devoted to listening practices, non-human realities, and possible forms of interspecies coexistence. Rooted in ecological engagement and site-specificity, their work emphasizes listening as an act of presence and permeation for a radical planetary interrelation. 🦋 Sk [Rain] (they/them) has a depth of knowledge stemming from producing with Ableton Live for 15 years and working as a software developer on the Live team in Berlin. They spent four of those years working with vision-impaired producers who were learning to use Ableton for the first time, which forced them to learn nearly the entire application, and to get really good at explaining it. 🦋 ophélie (she/they) is a DJ and producer with an affinity for low frequencies, intricate percussions and bass-heavy music in all its forms. They are interested in the fluid & organic aspects of music, achieved through combining layers of sounds and textures, creating (poly)rhythms that draw inspiration from natural landscapes.

Announcing two online courses this month! . ܁₊܁ ⟡ info & registration via link in bio ⊹ ₊ ܁. SONIC WORLDBUILDING w/ Slowfoam, Diane Barbé, Pablo Diserens, and Thom Lucero THURSDAYS | March 19 - April 16 | 6-8pm CET Fee: 120-240€* ABLETON PRODUCTION & FLOW [beginner to intermediate course] w/ Slowfoam, ophélie, Pablo Diserens, and Sk[Rain] TUESDAYS | March 17 - April 14  | 6-8pm CET Fee: 120-240€* BOTH COURSES: 200-300€* *sliding scale, pay what you can ~~~ SONIC WORLDBUILDING is a 5-week online course for musicians and artists who want to expand and queer their creative process while building resilience and meaningful sound practices in friction-filled times. As a practice, sonic worldbuilding is the art of composing possible futures into being, using sound as a portal and a living ecology that reshapes us on somatic and planetary scales. In its fifth iteration, @slowfoam is thrilled to invite @diane.isadora , @pablodiserens and @sometimes_just_umbrellas to expand on their previous curriculum. Each week is accompanied by exercises and discussions, as well as group listening and feedback sessions. — ABLETON: PRODUCTION & FLOW is a 5-week production course for beginner to intermediate Ableton users taught by @slowfoam , @ophelieeeee__ , @pablodiserens , and @sk_rain_ ]. The course is designed for a post-genre approach to creating within a DAW. We will balance practical and technical skills with unique methods for transforming audio, creating organic midi sequences, weaving textures, and building intriguing, flow-based projects. We hope all participants will gain a fresh and invigorated creative practice, expansive production techniques, and a sense of community support. ~~~ The courses are designed to be taken together or seperate. They are open to all, but are intended as a safe space for individuals who identify as FLINTA+ (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender people and all marginalised identities) ~ Please be mindful :)

~~~~ some reflections from the past 6 weeks while absorbing Aegean textures and patterns of history in water, ice, and EARTH (🙅ICE🙅no, ❄️ice❄️YES!) The world proves ever complicated in the virtue/ideological/classist/racist tug of war; the howling ugliness of greed and control… we carry a deep, aching crevice in our soul. Yet the natural world continually nudges us into its mystical and deep, mysterious and warm, glowing and gooey and effervescent wisdoms, ancestries, and somatic knowledges. Nature is sexy and alluring. Dangerous too, yet undulating with a steadfast spirit far beyond us. It will outlive us, and while we’re here, it can heal us. If we want, we can still choose it ~~ stretch toward the roots of the earth and the vastness of the sky. To choose beauty, joy, and connection in this world is challenging and glorious. My wishes for us in 2O26: Create and be courageous vessels, walk, be still, queer everything, be creaturely, seek out the strange, listen, detach/reattach, suck on icicles, touch mud, hold spiders, plunge into cold water, stay hydrated, rest (before burnout!), sing the patterns of the pebbles, willfully believe - and insist - that everything is still possible.

CHIMERA: A Somatic Practice of Multiplicity By Lou Croff Blake, Madelyn Byrd [Abstract] “Collaborations as Chimera: Creative Duo As friends and collaborators, our journey that leads to this practice has always been rooted in a shared Earth sensibility. Coming from different disciplines (and many dialectic oxbows), our combined body of knowledge and training spans sound art and music, neuroaesthetics and psychology, sustainability, fashion design, visual arts, writing, performance, and teaching. We funnel this odd multitool skillset in immersive artistic research that attempts to make sense of our place on this planet – developing and sharing practices to situate ourselves in ecology. We’ve embarked on projects that put our bodies skin-to-skin with the natural environment, scraped our knees, and plunged our hands into quicksand. We work with dancers to discover how movement might be a form of listening. We develop DIY meditations to tune into the Other – using each other as lab rats as we explore kinship with unexplainable phenomena. This all may sound very grand and poetic – but a core lesson we return to with every caper is that it is indisputably profound to go play outside. As our work deepens and matures, and (bless) finds more fodder in humor and absurdity, we come to a state of easy access to our somatic landscapes. Through years of self-guided practice, we are both honed at attuning to our bodies, to our companions, to our environment. And so, sharing these exercises we’ve developed for practicing chimerical embodiment, we invite you into our world where we blur the lines of folklore and science. We invite you to become your own study of cryptozoology, to be generously playful in your speculations, to practice monstering with your friends and more-than-human neighbors. Learning to embody the Other is a method of ecological behavior...” 📖 Read the full text in ISSUES 2025: Exquisite Commons: ➡️ schoolofcommons.org/making-public/issues/2025/chimera-a-somatic-practice-of-multiplicity #SchoolofCommons #ExquisiteCommons #ISSUES2025 #CHIMERA Image: Experiment 3.1: Movement for knee

I had the pleasure of opening for @ouri.riou at @silent.green a couple weeks ago .˚ ☾ .⭒ it was so lovely to play in this beautiful venue and to share the night with wonderful musicians. After a year of taking more of a behind-the-scenes approach to sound, I’m looking forward to sharing new music with you and performing more in the year to come. Thanks for being receptive and supporting what I do! I’m grateful every single day ~ creative transmission is so beautiful and powerful ❀༉‧