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Michel Geiss

Michel Geiss is a French sound engineer, instrument designer and musician who was a long-time collaborator of Jean-Michel Jarre. He has also collaborated with other famous French artists such as Marc Lavoine, Patrick Bruel or Laurent Voulzy. In 1978 during the recording of Equinoxe he designed the Matrisequencer 250, an instrument that later was used in Rendez-Vous (1986). The instrument was succeeded by the Geiss Digisequencer.

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Michel Geiss is a French sound engineer, instrument designer and musician who was a long-time collaborator of Jean-Michel Jarre. He has also collaborated with other famous French artists such as Marc Lavoine, Patrick Bruel or Laurent Voulzy.12 In 1978 during the recording of Equinoxe he designed the Matrisequencer 250,3 an instrument that later was used in Rendez-Vous (1986).4 The instrument was succeeded by the Geiss Digisequencer.

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  1. "Michel Geiss" [Interview of Michel Geiss]. www.mixound.com (in French).
  2. "Interview with Michel Geiss (I)". en.jeanmicheljarre.es. Archived from the original on 2017-06-15.
  3. "Interview with Michel Geiss (I)". Fairlight Jarre. 25 March 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  4. Rendez-Vous (booklet). Disques Dreyfus. 1988. 826 864-2.