Thesis Defense – Loïc Reboursière

Loïc Reboursière publicly defends his doctoral thesis on December 17 at 2:30 pm

The defense will take place at the University of Lille (France) on the Pont-de-Bois site, Villeneuve d’Ascq. Please send an email to Loïc Reboursière to inform him of your physical or virtual presence. The presentation will be broadcast via Zoom

Thesis title

Organology, genealogy and practice of the hexaphonic guitar: from the treatment of individual strings to instrumental gestural control

Abstract:

The hexaphonic guitar is an electric or electrified guitar with 6 strings and an individual sound pickup system for each string. The 6 sensors together form the hexaphonic pickup. This type of device allows, among other things, the control of a sound synthesizer by the instrumental playing or the application of independent sound effects for each string. Despite the integration of these two uses in commercial products since the 1970s, they have been adopted in very different ways. The presentation will present the results of the thesis that uses a triple approach: organological, technical and analysis of guitar playing practices. This triple approach was set up to try to understand in a fine way, why the use of hexaphonic sound effects has, until now, hardly developed, what are the sound potentials of such an approach of the instrument and how the instrumental practice is, or not, modified by this approach?

Supervisor: Prof. Thierry Dutoit (UMONS)
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Roald Baudoux (School of Arts Arts2, Mons)
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Vincent Tiffon (PRISM, Aix-Marseille University, France)

• This is a French thesis defense (ie no internal + external defense, only one) so the duration will be between 3 and 4 hours. It will be possible to leave the room if you do not have enough time.
• The presentation will be in French.
• A valid sanitary pass will be asked for those attending physically.
• If you cannot attend that day there will be an Infotech / Numediart presentation on 12/16/2021