Vincent Barras

Vincent Barras teaches the history of medicine and sciences at the University of Lausanne, and is a specialist in sound art, experimental literature and sound poetry, which he practices as author, performer and programmer. He also contributes, as a translator, to make known and spread some major works of various trends of poetry, music and contemporary literature: cofounder of Éditions Contrechamps, he has proposed a French version of John Cage's Silence, a volume of poems by Eugen Gomringer, an anthology by Robert Lax and a volume of poems by the Greek poet Georges Seferis.