Matilda Tjäder is an artist and musician building fictional worlds via text, sound, performance and moving image. In her work she develops experimental environments where the familiar interfaces with the unknown, the individual with the collective, and memories with the absence of sentience. By plugging into existing infrastructures she takes great pleasure in revising their invisible protocols and designs via storytelling, ambient installations and absurd scenarios. She is a resident at Retreat Radio with the monthly broadcast “Scaling” and is the founder of the eponymous concert-series taking place across different locations in Malmö.

WANNA KISS MYSELF
2024

WANNA KISS MYSELF is a four channel installation and sound piece that consists of an orchestra of jungle and drum and bass-tracks stripped of their bass, drums and synthesizers – left only are the vocals and lyrics, often already sampled from elsewhere. Reflecting on the themes of islands and rave-culture, the work considers these voices as an ambience of their own and as portals into a rave that once took place. Whether it be full sentences, murmurs or atmospheric singing these haunted and often familiar voices build a ghost-like choir. The vocal stems have been removed from their original tracks through AI-software and been mixed/mastered into a four-channel original composition by the artist.