ZOE TALLEY is a detroit-based dj, producer, and designer working through mirrors, portals, memory, and artifacts. their practice treats sound as medium—where time softens, experience becomes material, and the dance floor operates as a site of reflection, release, and transformation.
rooted in black and queer detroit club lineages, their sets move through black genre as fluid form: bass-heavy, translucent, rhythmic, and devotional. sound appears as mirror, as altar, as artifact—holding lineage while opening space for something new to arrive.
they are the founder of static (stc_det), a spiritual, temporal, and political context for sonic and visual culture. static exists as a studio, imprint, and evolving system—oscillating between the intellectual and the somatic, the archival and the ecstatic.
a third-generation detroiter, zoe’s relationship to sound is shaped by inherited memory—from blues, jazz, and motown to house, techno, and hip hop—carried forward through contemporary club ecologies. trained in communication design, their sonic work is informed by systems thinking: grids become drum patterns, spacing becomes rhythm, texture becomes frequency.
through parties, mixes, radio, and performance, zoe builds spaces where sound holds memory, honors lineage, and opens portals toward collective care, pleasure, and liberation.