FOUND are a Scottish experimental
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band and arts collective from
Edinburgh, Scotland. The founding members, Ziggy Campbell, Tommy Perman and Kevin Sim met while studying fine art at
Gray's School of Art in
Aberdeen. They began working on sound art installations together whilst in their final year at college in 2001. Each project they do is given a catalogue number and documented on their website.
In 2005 they formed a band in order to play live music at the openings of their ''Stop Look Listen'' exhibition tour (which toured from Peacock Visual Arts,
Aberdeen to The Meffan,
Forfar and the
Royal Scottish Academy
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The Academy was founded in 1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy, it became the ...
in
Edinburgh).
They recruited the keyboardist Gavin Sutherland in 2005, and then Alan Stockdale joined on drums and percussion at the beginning of 2006.
In 2006, FOUND released their debut
single
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Songs
* "Single" (Natasha Bedingfield song), 2004
* "Single" (New Kids on the Block and Ne-Yo song), 2008
* "Single" (William Wei song), 2016
* "Single", by ...
, "Mullokian" (SP4502), and album, ''Found Can Move'' (SPCD01), on Tommy Perman's
label Surface Pressure Records. They released two more singles from that album: "Static 68" on the Scottish label
Creeping Bent and "Synth Like Minds" on the
Hamburg based label, Aufgeladen Und Bereit.
In October 2006, FOUND took part in the inaugural
BBC Electric Proms
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with an unusual collaboration with multimedia comedians, (nobleandsilver).
In 2007, FOUND were commissioned to create a major sound installation to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. They produced a piece called ''Etiquette'', which was funded by the PRSFoundation's award for new music and uses some of the technology developed by
Reactable
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. Etiquette was displayed at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop's Magazine 07 exhibition, during the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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in Newhaven, Edinburgh.
In 2009, together with
Simon Kirby from the
University of Edinburgh, FOUND created Cybraphon, an "autonomous emotional robot band" in a wardrobe, for which they won a
BAFTA.
FOUND's second album, ''This Mess We Keep Reshaping'' (FNC-085), was released on
Fence Records (also see the
Fence Collective).
The first two FOUND albums have been supported by the
Scottish Arts Council.
The group released their third album ''Factorycraft'' on
Chemikal Underground in March 2011. After some line-up changes, the group, now a duo of Campbell and Sim released their fourth album ''CLONING'' in November 2015. The group released their fifth studio album ''Terra Nova'' on 1 July 2016.
Discography
*''Found Can Move'' (2006)
*''This Mess We Keep Reshaping'' (2007) (Fence Records)
*''Factorycraft'' (2011) (Chemikal Underground)
*''CLONING'' (2015) (Chemikal Underground)
*''Terra Nova'' (2016) (Chemikal Underground)
References
External links
FOUND official websiteEtiquette websiteEdinburgh Sculpture WorkshopFound - acoustic session at Homegame 2009
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