A Menagerie

Something puffs – Matt Rogers & Benedict Taylor

ARCO – Neil Luck, Chihiro Ono, Benedict Taylor

RCM Experimental Group plays Mieko Shiomi and others

3 overlapping groups of strange and experimental musical Fauna, Flora, Fictions

Neil Luck / Chihiro Ono / Benedict Taylor

An acoustic trio of strings and leaves. Two string playing behemoths Ono and Taylor are joined by Luck playing a menagerie of flora as chaotic noise generators.

Something Puffs (Matt Rogers / Benedict Taylor)

The Something Puffs are a band that smashes together punk, prog, improv and classical attitudes to make a music that’s been described as a ‘push and pull between the heart and the head, mess and maze, everything you thought it could be and everything it could be’. In this set a scaled-down Puffs present a chaotic orrery of text and music collaged from the deluge of materials coughed up like a hairball in the process of songwriting.

RCM Experimental Group

Advanced performance students from the Royal College of Music, led by Neil Luck, present works for ensemble.