Newbury College was excited to welcome producer and lecturer in electronic music at the University of West London Nino Auricchio on Wed 2nd March. During his visit he gave a guest lecture to the College's Music Technology students and provided them with information about progression routes with the University.
Alongside working at the University of West London Nino is a musician, composer and producer. His professional credits include performing at international festivals, the Jazz Café in Camden, playing and engineering on the BBC for live sessions, arranging for Song Music and writing/producing for films and Red Bull events. Nino is also currently studying a PhD in electronic music composition.
His particular expertise is in synthesis and his guest lecture focused on analogue synthesis using his analogue modular synthesis system. Unlike a digital synthesiser, a modular system contains individual components such as oscillators (which create the initial sound), filters (which change certain characteristics of the sound) and effects (such as delay and reverb) which can be connected together in an infinite number of creative ways.
Matt Foster, Music Technology lecturer at Newbury College said, We are very grateful to Nino for coming to talk to our students. His talk explored areas of Music Technology that are new to this student group and they really enjoyed the opportunity to create some of their own sounds using Nino's modular synthesiser.