Tectonics 2023 Artist Profile
Rufus Isabel Elliot
Rufus Isabel Elliot is a composer originally from Tower Hamlets, living now in Skye.
Rufus has written funerary music for doomed spaceships and orchestral music about rotting seaweed. Its music is ‘fluid and ambitious’ (The Wire) and ‘stunningly intimate’ (The Quietus). It cares about honesty and openness, speaking out, and how stories are told.
Recently, Rufus has worked with The Night With…, Sound and Music, Red Note Ensemble, The Riot Ensemble, Magnetic North, Knockvologan Studies, Mull, ATLAS Arts, Skye, Drake Music, and the Nevis Ensemble.
Rufus’ previous work can be heard on two albums which document two longer-form cycles of work. A/am/ams (come ashore, turn over) was released in 2021 in collaboration with Glasgow-based tape label GLARC. Its second album, Three sexual pieces for solo violin (this and this and this) was released in 2022.
