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title: Dominic Bouffard
description: Dom Bouffard, the London guitarist and composer: the Berliner Ensemble Lulu band, guitars on Sarth Calhoun’s “I Just Believe in Christmas,” and co-host of the podcast Beautiful Tornado.
url: https://www.sarth.net/conspirators/dominic-bouffard/
credit: Dominic Bouffard and Sarth Calhoun: the Berliner Ensemble Lulu (2011; Bouffard on guitar in the band, Calhoun co-composer and rehearsal director), “I Just Believe in Christmas” (2015, guitars), and Beautiful Tornado (2020 to 2021, co-hosts).
author: Sarth Calhoun
---
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# Dominic Bouffard

Guitarist and composer, a Robert Wilson regular. He played in the *Lulu* band in Berlin, on my Christmas song, and co-hosted Beautiful Tornado with me.

> This past August we all went in to the studio, along with a motley assortment of NYC instrumentalists ... plus my good friend Dominic Bouffard who was visiting from London .. and this was the result.
> 
> Sarth Calhoun, [on “I Just Believe in Christmas”](/conspiracies/i-just-believe-in-christmas/)

[Dom Bouffard](https://www.dombouffard.com/) is a London-born, Anglo-French guitarist, composer and multidisciplinary artist. He founded the rock band Sona Fariq in the early 2000s and now performs in the duo Emperors of Rome. With [Robert Wilson](/conspirators/robert-wilson/), who called him one of the most interesting musical talents we have today, he played guitar in *Lulu* (Berliner Ensemble, 2011) and *Shakespeare’s Sonnets* (2009), made the radio works *Monsters of Grace II* (2013) and *Tower of Babel* (2017, with Hal Willner), which won the Deutscher Hörspielpreis der ARD, and was composer, arranger and musical director for Wilson’s *Moby Dick* (Düsseldorf, 2024). He has worked with Lou Reed, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Daniel Hope, Lady Gaga and CocoRosie.

## Berlin, Brooklyn, and a podcast

He played electric guitar in the Berliner Ensemble band for [*Lulu*](/conspiracies/lulu/), the production whose score Lou Reed and I wrote and whose music rehearsals I directed in Berlin in 2011. In August 2015 he was visiting from London and played guitars on “[I Just Believe in Christmas](/conspiracies/i-just-believe-in-christmas/).” From March 2020 to February 2021 we made [Beautiful Tornado](/transmissions/beautiful-tornado/), six episodes of a podcast with guests including [Doron Lev](/conspirators/doron-lev/), Glen Brady, Richard Naviasky, Bryan Senti and [Michael Patrick F. Smith](/conspirators/michael-patrick-flanagan-smith/).

The credit: Dominic Bouffard and Sarth Calhoun: the Berliner Ensemble Lulu (2011; Bouffard on guitar in the band, Calhoun co-composer and rehearsal director), “I Just Believe in Christmas” (2015, guitars), and Beautiful Tornado (2020 to 2021, co-hosts).

The profile is from public sources, linked where they appear. What we made is the record on this site and the sources cited above.