Dom Bouffard is a London-born, Anglo-French composer and multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound, performance and visual art.
His music carves out its own space, drawing on No Wave, art-rock, contemporary classical, electroacoustic, experimental and improvised practices, often taking immersive, site-specific forms, an approach which he has been developing in residencies and commissions from Snape Maltings, Sound and Music and Mahler & Lewitt Studios.
He has composed for theatre and contemporary dance with pioneering artists including Robert Wilson, Victoria Chaplin, Marianna Kavallieratos, Charles Chemin, and Adelaide Cioni, and collaborated with musical artists such as Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright, Daniel Hope and Bryan Senti. His radio work WW1 was nominated for both the Kriegsblinden Prize and the Karl Sczuka Prize.
As an artist, Bouffard’s work spans drawing, sculpture, installation, text, video and sound, as seen in his 2025 Arts Council England-funded exhibition [Un]Reliable Witness at GALLERY46.
A founding member of the pioneering UK multi-ethnic alt-rock band Sona Fariq (Warner Music UK), who fused alternative rock, Dub, Bangra and Raï, Dom is also the singer, guitarist and songwriter of alt-folk duo Emperors of Rome.
Recent projects include:
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[Un]Reliable Witness — Arts Council England-funded solo exhibition at GALLERY46 (Artist)
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Moby Dick — by Robert Wilson & Anna Calvi at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (Composer/Arranger/Musical Director/Performer)
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SoundDrawingPerformance #1 — at Drawing Now Paris 2025 (Artist/Performer)
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Five Geometric Songs — by Adelaide Cioni at Arte Fiera Bologna (Composer/Sound Designer)
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Killing Horizon — with Bryan Senti on Naïve Records (Co-composer/Performer)
