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3 unusual facts about Michel Geiss


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Much of this was achieved using custom equipment developed by his collaborator Michel Geiss.

Generalized keyboard

Michel Geiss, :fr:Christian Braut and Philippe Monsire built the Semantic Daniélou, a 36-tone (out of 53 just intonation notes listed in the book "Sémantique Musicale" by Alain Daniélou) electronic instrument, on behalf of the author, using staggered square key button keyboards from two Cavagnolo Midy 20 master keyboards, where each parallel row of keys offers a transposition by one comma.

Michel Geiss

He has also collaborated with other famous French artists such as Marc Lavoine, Patrick Bruel or Laurent Voulzy.



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