Birth name Darrin Verhagen Name Darrin Verhagen Years active 1992–present Genres Dark ambient | Record label Extreme Records Website darrinverhagen.com Associated acts Shinjuku Thief | |
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, composer Role Composer · darrinverhagen.com Music director The Last Time I Saw Richard | ||
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Darrin Verhagen is an Australian-born composer of dark ambient and gothic 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, and researcher at AkE (Audiokinetic Experiments) Lab RMIT University in Melbourne, with his work based in multisensory integration.