Cybraphon @ SWG3

In the less than prominent upstairs exhibition space at SWG3 lurks an antique wooden display cabinet housing a BAFTA-winning cornucopia of light bulbs, antique machinery, acoustic instruments and found objects. This is Cybraphon, a collaboration between Edinburgh-based art/music collective FOUND and Simon Kirby, a professor of Language Evolution at Edinburgh University.

While it is charming in its ornamental appearance, its brilliance lies in its use of technology. When it senses an audience the instruments play, the lights flash on and off and you are whisked back to childhood, with visions of Beauty And The Beast’s enchanted household goods. Cybraphon is as unpredictable as it is beautiful; the music it plays is dependent on its 'mood', which is recorded on a one hundred year old galvanometer. This ranges from desolation to delirium – I unwittingly provoked dismay. Egotistically, it monitors its presence on the web every 15 seconds, vainly searching for good reviews or traffic to its website, in an attempt to brighten its mood.

Everyone loves a social networking tool, and as you watch, mesmerised, you decide that yes, you will follow Cybraphon on Twitter, and befriend it on Facebook. FOUND really have tapped into a way not only to renegotiate your relationship with ‘inanimate’ objects, but also a way to be completely seduced by one. Be warned, go and you’ll fall under its spell.