Rufus Isabel Elliot is a composer and musician originally from Tower Hamlets, living now in Skye.

Rufus has written funerary music for doomed spaceships and orchestral music about rotting seaweed. It cares about honesty and openness. Its work is concerned with testimony, the conditions in which one speaks out, and how those stories are passed on.

Its music is ‘fluid and ambitious’ (The Wire), ‘stunningly intimate’ (The Quietus), and 'achingly fragile' (The Scotsman).

Since coming ashore a few years ago, Rufus has worked with the likes of The Night With…, sound festival scotland, Red Note Ensemble, The Riot Ensemble, Magnetic North, Knockvologan Studies, ATLAS Arts, Drake Music, and the Nevis Ensemble. Rufus was a Sound and Music Composer-Curator in 2020, and trained in workshop facilitation with Tempting Failure during the coronavirus lockdown.