Guillaume Garnier de Barros is a French-Portuguese poet, performer, and musician working at the intersection of language, voice, and musical composition.
His work centres on the question of inherited language, memories & archives — what we carry from those who spoke before us, and what we carry without having received it. This question is at once personal and poetic: his family is from Trás-os-Montes, but he does not actually speak Portuguese.
He is co-founder of the trio DJAN (Armenian, Sephardic, and Persian musical traditions), member of the poetry collective Le Bordel de la Poésie, and baroque guitarist with Compagnie Sensible.
He holds a DEM in contemporary vocal music (CRR de Créteil), a Master in Political Philosophy (Paris-Sorbonne), and has been a member of the ArTec pre-doctoral research-creation programme at Paris 8 since 2020. He is writing research on arts performance and communication around inheritance, ethnomusicology, and diasporic memory.
His work has been presented at the Gaîté Lyrique, the Maison des Métallos, the Maison de la Poésie, the Institut de France, and in gallery and performance contexts with Revue Foehn and Bicéphale.
His debut EP, Le Son des Mouches — whose title quotes a line from his poetry collection Ma langue entre tes briques, currently in editorial submission — was performed in a deconsecrated chapel in Paris in April 2026.
His current solo project, Passantes, is a commissioned performance-concert for the Rencontres de Chaminadour (September 2026), created in collaboration with Lebanese writer Charif Majdalani, built around the archival voices of Paul Celan and Mahmoud Darwish, electric guitar, looper, and live voice.
He has just completed the writing of a new concert-poème for five musicians, blending live music, poetry, and video — a “climatic music” moving between rock, traditional, and electronic idioms, pursuing a quest for our burning, living desire despite the urgency of time and the exhaustion of a saturated world. Three singles will be recorded in October.