22 Facts About Rich Aucoin

Richard Aucoin was born on September 15,1983 and is a Canadian musician, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Rich Aucoin has toured throughout North and South America, Europe and Australia.

Rich Aucoin employs experimental recording techniques on his albums, and is noted for audience involvement and interaction at his performances.

Rich Aucoin finished the cycling tour with 30 dates that ended in Victoria, BC from Halifax and then embarked on a tour with The Hylozoists opening for The Besnard Lakes.

Rich Aucoin toured with one microphone, an Mbox, Pro Tools 32 Track LE and his laptop released in November 2011, and then performed at Halifax Pop Explosion at St Matthew's United Church with a one-night-only band of about 80 performers.

At the time, Rich Aucoin ran half marathons for Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Rich Aucoin decided to go back to syncing the album with just one piece of media rather than the collage of public domain films for We're All Dying to Live and so Ephemeral plays as an alt soundtrack to the 1979 Will Vinton claymation movie The Little Prince.

Rich Aucoin recorded an audience of 20,000 of festival performances in the summer of 2012 all over Canada, US and Europe shows for Ephemerals opening track, Meaning in Life.

The album opens with a vocal sample of Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips talking to Neil Fridd of Terror Pigeon about "being into long things" after Fridd and Rich Aucoin had just gotten off stage as costumed dancers for a Lips festival show in 2011 at the Hangout Music Festival where Rich Aucoin was performing.

Rich Aucoin was privileged to perform his album song with Symphony Nova Scotia in collaboration with The Halifax Pop Explosion.

Rich Aucoin started Synthetic: A Synth Odyssey LP in March 2020 while doing an Artist In Residency at the National Music Centre in Calgary, Alberta.

Almost fully recorded, the pandemic halted recording in April 2020 so Rich Aucoin shifted focus on music documentary No Ordinary Man directed by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt.

Rich Aucoin played all the sum 37 synthesizers on Season 1 which was released in October 2022 by We Are Busy Bodies.

Rich Aucoin might be best known for his live show in Canada.

Rich Aucoin has been known to make a personalized show for every performance given thousands of fans personalized intro credits in the opening credits of the show; messages usually revolve around topical humor or cultural references like "So and So doesn't settle for anything, except Catan".

Rich Aucoin has narration and other comedy elements added between songs to give time for costume changes and other props, including crowd surfing on a real surf board.

Group movement plays a large role, with Rich Aucoin leading the audience through many interactive moments and large group coordination.

Rich Aucoin plays either solo with samples or with a various configuration of backing band members from all over North America and Europe.

Rich Aucoin had nearly 90 musicians join him for his album release for We're All Dying to Live at the Halifax Pop Explosion in 2011 at St Matthew's Church.

Rich Aucoin developed a performance character in 2019 for his first shows doing support for TWRP and, keeping with the sci-fi style of the band, Rich Aucoin developed The Space Cowboy and would enter stage to the Steve Miller Band track The Joker and its line "some people call me the space cowboy".

Rich Aucoin announced he would retire this version of the show at the end of 2025.

Rich Aucoin holds the record as the artist who played his hometown Halifax Pop Explosion more than any other artist during its run.