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title: Beautiful Tornado
description: Beautiful Tornado, the podcast by Sarth Calhoun and Dom Bouffard: six conversations with musicians and artists, 2020 to 2021, with Doron Lev, Glen Brady, Richard Naviasky, Bryan Senti and Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith.
url: https://www.sarth.net/transmissions/beautiful-tornado/
published: 2026-09-23
facet: message
credit: *Beautiful Tornado* was made by Sarth Calhoun and Dom Bouffard: six episodes, March 2020 to February 2021.
author: Sarth Calhoun
---
[Transmissions](/transmissions/) / Beautiful Tornado

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# Beautiful Tornado

*Beautiful Tornado* is the podcast Dom Bouffard and I made: six long conversations with musicians and artists, recorded in 2020 and 2021. It is on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmXj9m6I5JooEjI2skmu1LdMlhlmYaTfb) and [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beautiful-tornado/id1553841403).

![Beautiful Tornado podcast cover: an abstract drawing in red, black and blue.](/images/beautiful-tornado-cover.jpg)

Cover, *Beautiful Tornado*.

> It’s like a dirty secret. A place where musicians and artists talk about the kind of stuff they love to talk about, but their girlfriends / boyfriends don’t. We’ll be chatting to amazing and original creators around the world about new releases, how they think about what they do, whether robots will kill us all and if peyote is as good on cornflakes as on Rice Crispies... that kinda thing..
> 
> The show’s own description

## The episodes

- **1. Waiting for Doron.** Dom and Sarth grapple with technical issues, talk about latest releases, and wonder when Doron might show up. March 30, 2020. 34 min.

  [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXxj085FSk)

- **2. More Egg than Egg.** With Doron Lev. 1 h 34 min.

  [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgnKGljOBRE)

- **3. I Was Ready.** With Glen Brady, DJ, producer and former Irish DMC scratch champion, aka The Glass, DJ Wool and Blackwater Hardware, on his career from New York, Berlin and California to musician and survivalist in the Irish countryside. 1 h 25 min.

  [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkGrvP7A1dA)

- **4. Richard Naviasky’s Positivity Mission.** Songwriter, poet, firefighter, transatlantic sailor, dad. Rich Nav on round bottoms, why music’s better than art, and crapping off the side of boats. November 17, 2020. 42 min.

  [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxIDY9XvvaA)

- **5. Bryan Senti.** A musician, composer and producer from New York, now working in Hollywood. Platonic ideals, metric modulation, beta blockers and the joy of performance. 1 h 45 min.

  [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkvCEhxo4-g)

- **6. The Re-Enchantment of the World.** With Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith, singer-songwriter, playwright and novelist, from New York to Kentucky via a North Dakota oil town, with covid-era songs performed live. February 15, 2021. 2 h 26 min.

  [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAzJr382Ho)

## Conspiracies

Dom Bouffard played guitar in the Berliner Ensemble band for [*Lulu*](/conspiracies/lulu/) and on [“I Just Believe in Christmas”](/conspiracies/i-just-believe-in-christmas/). Doron Lev, of episode two, drums on that song and makes films at [Third Wall Studio](/conspiracies/third-wall-studio/). Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith, of episode six, sings it.

The credit: *Beautiful Tornado* was made by Sarth Calhoun and Dom Bouffard: six episodes, March 2020 to February 2021.

![Beautiful Tornado YouTube banner.](/images/beautiful-tornado-youtube-banner.jpg)

The YouTube banner.

Episode list and lengths from the YouTube playlist; dates from the podcast feeds where they carry them. The description is the show’s own.