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We're at war with the cynics! Syncing to classic films from our childhoods, this music is presented as either a solo show or with a band of theremins, drums, bass and old vintage keyboards run through a small delta of pedals.

Personal Publication EP, was recorded over a year with one microphone and holds more than 25 instruments on its soundwaves. It was written to sync with Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) in the same manner as Pink Floyd's famous sync with The Wizard of Oz.

Public Publication EP, has been recorded over the past year with many microphones and with over 500 musicians from Victoria, BC to Saint John's, NFLD and in and out of studios with great producers Andrew Watt (Common Ground), Howard Bilerman (Hotel2Tango), Jace Lasek (BreakGlass), Paul Aucoin (HallaMusic) and has been helmed with musical partner, Joel Waddell for its construction. It syncs to a new film comprised out of the cutting together of over 50 films in the public domain.

While making these two EPs, we've got to play a bunch of shows with bands we like while touring by bicycle across the country or running half-marathons in each city raising monies for local, national and international charities. Some of the bands we've played with are making great music that you may have heard of or should hear: Girl Talk, Dan Deacon, Deerhoof, Holy Fuck,The Golden Dogs, The Weakerthans, The Constantines, Plants & Animals, Spiral Stairs, Rock Plaza Central, FemBots, Guns & Bombs and Nat Baldwin of The Dirty Projectors.

Instructions for Personal Publication Sync

Synchronicity "is a word coined by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to describe the temporally coincident occurrences of casual events."

"Canadian wunderkind... Aucoin's candy confections are enough to melt all of Halifax"
- Larry Fitzmaurice - Spin

"Extremely Magical"
- Chris Whibbs - Exclaim! Canada’s Music Authority

"This guy has made an epic album"
- Whitney Matheson - USA Today

"A bizarre yet wondrous bit of music"
- Dave Jaffer - Montreal Hour

"Best Shows of 2007: Seeing Haligonian and multi-instrumentalist Rich Aucoin step unassumingly onto a stage is like opening a box from Ikea: you think you know what you’re in for, but there are a lot more pieces to the puzzle than you expected"
- Jill Langlois - Eye Weekly (Toronto)

Canadian bands I would recommend to you:

Hylozoists femBots Cuff the Duke Weakerthans Heavy Blinkers Hopeful Monster Their Majesties Laura Barrett Just Friends Major Grange Museum Pieces Feist Hidden Cameras Final Fantasy Christine Fellows Nathan Lawr Broken Social Scene Buck 65 Just Barelys Brent Randall & His Pinecones Sweet Tenders Laura Peek & The Winning Hearts The Sea Threw Timothy The Call-Up The Fools Music The Stance The First Aid Kit BA Johnston Do Make Say Think Jenn Grant & the Night Painters Rebekah Higgs Double A Augustine The Orchid Music Inspired the Film Dale Murray Wintersleep Contrived Holy Fuck Ruth Mikinin Word Burglar Dog Day On Film In-Flight Safety Benn Ross Dependant Brain Borcherdt TomCat Combat Fall Horsie The Stolen Minks The Ghost Bees Punch Me Hard Great Plains The Stretch Trouble Rocket Will Hemmings Matt Mays & El Torpedo Glory Glory Man United The Healing Power Caledonia The Grass The Spades Ruby Jean and The Thoughtful Bees A/V AA Wallace Adam Puddington Al Tuck A Sight For Sewn Eyes Alpha Flight Amelia Curran Share Andru Branch & The Half-Way Tree Arcade Fire Attack Mode Baby Eagle A Band of Owls Be Bad Blackout 77 Brad Casey Broken Ohms Bucket Truck C'mon City Field City & Colour The Crimson Tides D/A A/D Dammien Alexander DD/MM/YYYY Don Brownrigg Down With The Butterfly Eviction Party Fire Flower Revue Forest City Lovers Gamma Gamma Rays Germans Ghettosocks Gloryhound and the Skyhawks Gypsophilia Grand Theft Bus Heavy Meadows Hey Rosetta! Hot Shot Robot Husband and Knife I See Rowboats Jesse Dangerously Jon McKiel Joel Plaskett Emergency Jonny Stevens Jon-Rae & The River Jordan Croucher Journalist Wold Joyless Streets Juan Love Kev Corbett Mardeen Mark Bragg Mike Evin Mike Trask Myles Deck & The Fuzz Meaghan Smith Oh Dinah Oh! Beautiful! Majestic! Eagle! Old Man Luedecke
to be continued...