The prospect of reviewing an eight-and-a-half hour festival, I’ll admit, is a bit of a daunting one. But when presented with the airtight Sunday program of the music box project’s (tmbj) weekend-long Cut Paste Play Festival, I couldn’t pin down a place to duck out for a quick break without missing something important.

Branded as “a festival of music outside the usual order of things”, Cut Paste Play had found an absolute dream home in Camperdown’s Church Street Studios. The more you look around , the more oddities make themselves apparent: a French horn chandelier; a contrabass clarinet serving as a lamp stand; Devil’s ivy streaming out of the bells of saxophones; a freakishly long flute mounted in the entryway. It rivalled the festival in quirk and charm.

Hamed Sadeghi was the first performer of the day, and the close-knit venue suited his set perfectly. He performed unamplified on tar, with hammer-ons so clean they barely registered. His set was one of two that tmbp purposed as a “double shot of audio coffee”,...