Dom Bouffard is a London-based composer, songwriter and multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound, performance and visual art.

 

His music draws deeply on improvisation and exploratory practice, crossing boundaries freely and with an interest in innovative performance and site formats. He is currently working on a body of instrumental works for electric guitars including a solo album ‘Sound Drawings’ and is developing his first opera which he recently workshopped at The National Theatre, London. His compositions have been performed internationally by interpreters including Ludi Quartet Kernow (with Adrian Lee and Adrian Utley) and by Sergio Sorrentino (along side works by Steve Reich, John King, John Cage, Joji Yuasa and Cesare Saldicco, Rick Romano and Ayal Adler)

 

As a multidisciplinary artist, Bouffard’s work spans drawing, sculpture, installation, text, video and sound. His solo show Sound Drawings per il Portico d’Ottavia is currently exhibited  at Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome. His work has previously been exhibited at Gallery 46, Batsford Gallery and The Worlding Project (London) and Sevil Dolmaci Gallery, Istanbul. At  Drawing Now Paris 2025 he   presented SoundDrawingPerformance#1 combining  action drawing with  generative, immersive sound.  

 

He has worked with major musical artists including Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright, Daniel Hope* and Bryan Senti and composed for theatre and contemporary dance with pioneering directors such as Robert Wilson, Victoria Chaplin, Marianna Kavallieratos, Charles Chemin, and Adelaide Cioni (Five Geometric Songs was recently performed at MAXXI, Rome).

 

He has performed internationally at major venues including BAM, Theatre de la Ville (Paris) Teatro Nuovo (Spoleto), Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Baltic House (St  Petersburg), MAXXI (Rome) STEGI and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (Athens), Berliner Ensemble and Festspieler (Berlin) and has undertaken research projects at Iklectik, Worlding Project, The Watermill Center (NY), Snape Maltings and Mahler & Lewitt  Studios (Spoleto)..

 

His radio work 'WWI' was nominated for both the Kriegsblinden and Karl Sczuka Prizes. ‘Tower of Babel’, a BBC/ARD coproduction directed  by Robert Wilson and co-composed with Hal Willner won the Deutsche Hörspielpreis der ARD in 2017.

 

A former member of the UK alt-rock bands Sona Fariq and Queen Adreena, he is one half of alt-folk/blues-punk duo Emperors of Rome, with Alli MacInnes.

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(* For Seasons won the 2017 ECHO Klassik Award)

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Recently completed projects include:

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• Sound Drawings for per il Portico d'Ottavia - solo gallery exhibition at GALLERIA VALENTINA BONOMO, Rome

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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 MAXXI (Rome) (Composer/Sound Designer)

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• Killing Horizon — with Bryan Senti on Naïve Records (Co-composer/Performer)