Dom Bouffard is a London-born composer and multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans sound, drawing, sculpture, installation, video and text.
Their music focuses on improvisation and operating at the edge of control, using extended techniques and the ‘prepared’ electric guitar to generate sounds they treat as physical objects, materials and energies. Extending this approach, Bouffard’s large-scale, immersive sculptural and performance works sometimes incorporate generative or randomised computer-assisted systems, audience participation and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Bouffard’s drawing practice, which originates from graphic scoring, is evolving into a broader investigation of repetition and recursive gesture, parallel to their research into neurodiversity and the transmission of trauma. Their text works are spontaneous expressions of memories and associative thought, frequently addressing inherited trauma and the intergenerational reverberations of their family’s experience as war refugees - the central themes of their recent solo exhibition [Un]Reliable Witness.
A founding member of the UK alternative rock band Sona Fariq (and singer-songwriter of the on-off indie duo Emperors of Rome), Bouffard later relocated to Berlin, where they performed in two major stage productions with Bertolt Brecht’s legendary Berliner Ensemble. In 2012 they attended The Watermill Center (NY) International Summer Program for the first time, joining its community of artists. This led to collaborations with visionary directors, choreographers and artists including Robert Wilson, Victoria Chaplin, Marianna Kavallieratos, Charles Chemin and Adelaide Cioni. Bouffard has also worked with renowned musical figures such as Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright and Daniel Hope. Their work has been presented internationally at institutions including the Musée du Louvre, Berliner Festspiele, The Watermill Center and Snape Maltings. Tower of Babel, a BBC-produced collaboration with Robert Wilson and Hal Willner, won the Deutscher Hörspielpreis der ARD in 2017.
Recent projects include their Arts Council England funded exhibition [Un]Reliable Witness at GALLERY46 (London); theatre production MOBY DICK by Robert Wilson & Anna Calvi (as co-composer and musical director)at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (one of Wilson’s final works); SoundDrawingPerformance #1 at DRAWING NOW PARIS 2025, and Adelaide Cioni's 'Five Geometric Songs' at Arte Fiera Bologna. Their latest record, KILLING HORIZON with Bryan Senti, is out now on Naïve Records.
Dom holds an MMus Creative Practice (Music) from Goldsmiths University of London.
Dom holds an MMus Music (Creative Practice) from Goldsmiths University of London.
