On a mission to create a euphoric communal experience, Rich Aucoin writes music with emphasis on the feelings and happiness that it creates. With his second recording effort, "Public Publication", Aucoin has created an anthemic pop record where the barriers between audience and performers are dropped and the group as a whole performs this lush, orchestral, electro pop music. The end result is sweat drenched party full of group singing, playing and dancing. Crowd karaoke meets an 8 year old’s ideal birthday party, the bars and venues where the shows take place are transformed into a magical event with Aucoin’s ever evolving sound and light show with balloons, streamers and more confetti than the bars hoped he’d bring to help celebrate the occasion.

The group huddles around a massive projection that Aucoin broadcasts of the films that Aucoin writes his music to. A over stimuli of collage is seen as a myriad of film clips from the public domain are shown, woven together into a new narrative about following dreams and overcoming addiction to find happiness in community. The film syncs with the music the group performs together in the same way that Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of The Moon syncs with The Wizard of Oz. Aucoin is familiar with this type of syncing as he wrote and recorded his first record on his own, performing more than 25 instruments on it and writing it...