Nino Auricchio

Nino Auricchio

Senior Lecturer
Course Leader:
BSc (Hons) Sound Engineering
BSc (Hons) Audio Software Engineering
MSc Digital Audio Engineering
School of Computing and Engineering

Electronic music (modular synthesiser instruments) composition and performances:

  • Auricchio, Nino, Borg, Paul, AKA d’Voxx (2019) Télégraphe. DiN Records. [CD/2xLP]
  • Auricchio, Nino, Borg, Paul, AKA d’Voxx performances at Capstone Theatre Liverpool (2019), Superbooth Berlin (2017/2018), We Are Robots Festival London (2017), St. Louis College Rome (2017), University of Sussex (2016).
  • Auricchio, Nino, Borg, Paul and Whelan, Larry (2016) Cold waves. [Performance at Music Tech Fest 2016]

Writing, arranging, engineering and co-producing two albums as part of the funk and soul band Funkshone, signed to Skyline Recordings:

  • '2' - Released January 2012 in Japan under licence to P-Vine Records and March 2012 in the UK.
  • 'Shining' - Released October 2008 in the UK and in Japan under licence to P-Vine Records.

Producing numerous 7” singles between 2006 to the present day:

  • Bandoni, Michael and Auricchio, Nino (2016) Funkshone 'The strut'.[Audio] Item availability may be restricted.
  • Purification Parts 3/4 with Kenny Dope Gonzales (7” single) released on Kaydee Records. July 2012.
  • Never Gonna’ Work / Aberlady Fry (7” single) released on Skyline Recordings. June 2011.
  • Forward on Brother / Forward on in Dub (7” single) released on Skyline Recordings. March 2011
  • Soul Survivor (parts 1&2) (7” single) released on Skyline Recordings. September 2010.
  • Shining (album and 12” sampler) released on Skyline Recordings. September 2008.
  • The Raw / The Strut (7” single) released on Skyline Recordings. July 2008.
  • Droppin’ / Run For It (7” single) released on Skyline Recordings. February 2008.
  • Stop the Bus / Soul Food (7” single) released on Skyline Recordings. September 2007.
  • Purification (7” single) released on Skyline Recordings. June 2007.

Licence of music to Red Bull for BBoy World Championships in Rio De Janeiro (December 2012).

Remix releases as Funkshone:

  • 'Shake Your Body' for Aldo Vanucci on Good Living Records. October 2010.
  • 'Special Baby' for Lack of Afro on Freestyle Records. July 2010.
  • 'Goodbye Eric!' for MB as an independent release. May 2011.

Mixing and mastering for progressive house and ambient break act Coalesced, signed to the Composure label:

  • 'Cortina' EP - January 2008
  • 'Vodka Split' and ‘Minor Miracle’ remixes - July 2008
  • 'Viceral' - December 2012

Releases under 'Nino Auricchio':

  • 'Dark Hustler' EP - May 2007. Homeless Pigeon Records.
  • 'All Passion Spent' - September 2002. Independent release.

Commissioned work:

  • 'Insecticide' - An original composition performed at the Society for the Promotion of New Music 2001 concert in Birmingham.

String quartet and choral arrangement for the UK Bhangra group Partners in Rhyme signed to Sony Music India:

  • 'Timeless' album - Released 2001
  • Qualifications

    • BA (Coventry University)
    • MSc (City University)
    • PGCert (Reading University)
  • Memberships

    Audio Engineering Society
    Fellow of the HEA (University of West London)

Teaching

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Engineering, and a composer of electronic music. I also produce funk and soul music, and am involved in mixing production for house and electronic acts. I am a member of the Audio Engineering Society.

  • Conferences

    Refereed and published conference proceedings

    Auricchio, Nino (2017) Natural highs: timbre and chills in electronic dance music. In: Popular Music Studies Today. Systematische Musikwissenschaft. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, Germany, pp. 11-23. ISBN 9783658177409

    Auricchio, Nino and Borg, Paul (2016) New modular synthesizers and performance practice. In: SAE 2nd Synthposium, 14 Nov 2016, Melbourne, Australia. (Unpublished)

    Recommending Audio Mixing Workflows. International Conference on Case Based Reasoning 2013 - July 9 2013

    Similarity Knowledge Formalisation for Audio Engineering: In Proceedings of the Seventeenth UK Workshop on Case Based Reasoning. SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence - December 11 2012