Darrin Verhagen is an Australian-born composer of
dark ambient and
gothic
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People and languages
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**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
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music. He has adopted several different monikers for his recorded output, depending on the genre including Shinjuku Thief, Shinjuku Filth and Professor Richmann. .
After his first album ''
Bloody Tourist'' was released, Verhagen founded Dorobo Records which he has continued to issue his music through.
He has composed music for Australia's premiere arts companies (including Chunky Move, Australian Dance Theatre, Lucy Guerin, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, Showtime Movie Channel, Patricia Piccinini, and SBS Television). He currently works as a senior lecturer in Sound + Vision in the Digital Media program, researcher at AkE (Audiokinetic Experiments) Lab
RMIT University
RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public research university in Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city ...
in
Melbourne
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, with his work based in
multisensory integration
Multisensory integration, also known as multimodal integration, is the study of how information from the different sensory modalities (such as sight, sound, touch, smell, self-motion, and taste) may be integrated by the nervous system. A coherent r ...
. He collaborates with other practitioners in installation works as (((20 Hz))).
Shinjuku Thief
Shinjuku Thief is an experimental recording project of Darrin Verhagen, that could be described as
dark ambient or gothic industrial.
Shinjuku Thief began in 1992 as a trio, consisting of Verhagen, Charles Tétaz and
François Tétaz
François "Franc" Tétaz (born 22 December 1970) is an Australian film composer, music producer and mixer, who won the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) / Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) 2006 'Feature Film Score of the ...
.
Eventually, Verhagen became the mainstay. Shinjuku Thief's first LP, ''
Bloody Tourist'', was released on the
Extreme label. Subsequent LPs were released on Verhagen's own Dorobo label. Verhagen's side-project, Shinjuku Filth, released music in the
industrial music
Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive or provocative sounds and themes. AllMusic defines industrial music as the "most abrasive and aggressive fusion of rock and electronic music" that was "initiall ...
genre.
Discography
;Solo
*''Soft Ash'' (1997, Dorobo)
;as Shinjuku Thief
*''
Bloody Tourist'' (1992,
Extreme)
*''
The Scribbler'' (1992, Dorobo)
*''The Witch Hammer'' (1993, Dorobo)
*''The Witch Hunter'' (1995, Dorobo)
*''The Witch Haven'' (2002, Dorobo)
*''Matte Black'' (2004, Dorobo)
*''Devoltion'' (2006, Dorobo)
*''
Boys in the Trees
''Boys in the Trees'' is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, released by Elektra Records, in April 1978.
The lead single, " You Belong to Me", reached No. 6 on the ''Billboard'' Pop Singles chart, becoming Simon ...
OST'' (2016, Liberation)
;as Shinjuku Filth
*''
Junk'' (1995, Dorobo)
*''Raised by Wolves'' (1997, Dorobo)
*''Zero/Stung'' (1999, Dorobo)
;as Professor Richmann
*''Succulent Blue Sway'' (1995, Dorobo)
References
External links
*
Staff homepage
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Living people
Australian male composers
Australian composers
Australian electronic musicians
Musicians from Melbourne
1967 births
Australian people of Flemish descent