Description :
This keyboard was the subject of a State order placed on the occasion of the exhibition « L'enfant et les sortilèges », Sénat-Paris, boosted by the artist Lydie ARICKS.
It is created on the basis of a prototype keyboard used within the ensemble « Destructures sonores » (O. SAMOUILLAN, PY LEJEUNE, B. SANZ, F. BOUSQUET), during a Kansas tour, USA.
It is representative of the different tones that the BASCHET brothers encountered during their experimentations. A chromatic keyboard of 1 octave is joined in the centre. The stand's aesthetic, made in aluminum tube, is borrowed from the curved shapes of furniture-sculptures developped by François BASCHET. It has the distinctive feature to be the first keyboard that was entirely created in stainless steel.