Tam Lines is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and musician. Their work often focuses on the boundaries between the human and nonhuman, new materialism, cybernetics, and online cultures to generate playful, poetic, and introspective projects.

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They have produced research and audio for the likes of the Barbican, Container Magazine, Sonic Scope Journal, and Lit Magazine.

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In September 2022, Tam set up Crossovers Collective with Jessica Beechey, an ongoing art and music collective with regular shows and meet-ups in South London.

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Tam Lin

In Scottish folklore, Tam Lin was trapped by the fairie queen in the realm of spirits, only able to return to our reality through a series of monstrous transformations. Tam Lines’s musical persona, Tam Lin, also inhabits an altered plane of existence. 

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A regular of London’s underground scene,performing at the likes of Niche, Deptford X, and Shelltek, as well as a recent set at Supersonic Festival, Tam Lin makes music for the social media age, in which real selves and digital appearances maintain an uneasy relationship. 

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Mutation is central to Tam Lin’s music. They traverse the contradictory planes of this networked life, through degraded memescapes, ghostly chatrooms, and slick interfaces, trying to capture the dissociation, anxiety and joy of this split existence.

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Drawing on diverse influences including Tricky, Death Grips, Coil and Chris Morris, Tam Lin twists and glitches voltages to unique forms through modular synthesis, field recording and drum machines to create mutant, post-industrial soundscapes. 

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Tam Lin has ceaselessly morphed since the IDM ecologies of their 2021 debut LP, bug.albm. They have incorporated elastic percussion in Fever, cybernetic noise in Chaotic Conflations, field-recording manipulations in Nearly, and “the online world made eerie” in their sonic fiction bluelightnospaceflattime, which received airplay on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction.

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This journey has culminated in Tam Lin’s upcoming 2024 EP, Mutant Tangle, which incorporates the eclectic styles of their earlier work into a suite of fizzy hooks and pressurised beats, warm ambience and energetic disintegration.​