Cybraphon
Cybraphon
Genres: cybraphon, robot, Autonomous Emotional Robot Band, cybraphonic, wardrobe
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About Cybraphon
Cybraphon is the latest project from Edinburgh-based band / artist collective FOUND (Ziggy Campbell, Simon Kirby and Tommy Perman). Inspired by 19th-century automatic bands such as the orchestrion and the player piano, Cybraphon is an interactive, mechanical band in a box. It consists of a number of acoustic instruments, antique machinery, and found objects from junk shops, played by over 60 robotic beaters, all housed in an antique wooden display case. But unlike the orchestrion and player piano, Cybraphon is emotional. Its repertoire has been composed especially by FOUND and spans a range of emotional states. Just like FOUND, Cybraphon is image-conscious and moody, and the music it performs depends on what state of mind it's in. Cybraphon wants to be popular. Just by going to its website you will affect its mood and the kind of music it plays. Cybraphon regularly checks its MySpace page, worries about how many fans it has on Facebook, looks up its website stats and obsessively Googles itself to see what people are saying about it. For example, a review in a local newspaper will almost certainly cheer up Cybraphon and encourage it to play happier songs. However, Cybraphon is an insecure, egotistical band: a good review will cheer it up for a while, but once the initial excitement dies down it will soon become disillusioned if its fame does not continue to rise. Cybraphon is the 21st century equivalent of the player piano, but instead of your coins, it begs for your attention. Its music is purely acoustic, but what it plays is driven by its mood, and this is shaped by its success in the online world.
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