Cybraphon - further reading and viewing

It's not often that we put a robot on the front of our Festival magazine, writes arts editor Andrew Eaton, but we make an exception for today's cover star, Cybraphon, the ingenious invention of multi-talented Edinburgh band and art collective, Found, which is currently on show at the Inspace Gallery as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival (the clip above is from the Art Festival's YouTube site, which also features short films about Eva Hesse, Bob and Roberta Smith and more).

As regular readers will know, the Scotsman has been championing Found for some time now. Most recently, the band featured on the cover of our Saturday magazine earlier this year, illustrating a feature on Edinburgh's extraordinarily vibrant music scene.

Local blogger Matthew James Young recently argued in a post raving about Cybraphon that Found are the kind of band who would be hailed as mavericks all across the media if they lived in London. I suspect he's right. As it is, they live in Edinburgh and remain mostly unknown outside Scotland. It's nice to see Cybraphon getting them more widespread attention - at the rate things are currently going, their creation will end up being more famous than them.

Here they are jamming with their creation (as they will do again at a live event at Inspace tomorrow night), as filmed by Off The Beaten Tracks.



If you're a fan of Found, you won't want to miss an event called Playing With The Past at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh on 22 August, in which the band will perform a live soundtrack to footage from the Scottish Screen archives, alongside two more of Edinburgh's best bands, Meursault and Eagleowl.