Music
Tyson Hopprich (DJ Tr!p)
DJ TR!P is an electronic composer based in Adelaide who has a strong reputation for composing complex music using obsolete technology. TR!P works as a disc jockey, a remix artist, workshop tutor and scores for numerous major theatre & dance companies around Australia including Vitalstatistix, Tanja Liedtke, The Australian Choreographic Centre, Australian Dance Theatre, Queenbitchery / Adelaide Festival Centre, Urban Myth, Restless Dance Company & Tasdance. As a live performer he has played at major festivals & events nationally & internationally including Sundown & Super Deluxe [Tokyo], Adelaide Fringe [’02,’04,’06], Big Day Out [’99,’03’,’06], Falls, TINA, SOOB & Nextwave. He has also scored for many film projects and also for ABC’s Poetica program. TR!P recently had the honour of remixing the welcome of Kuarna Elder, Auntie Josie for the opening of the Adelaide Fringe ’06. Producing music professionally since 1996, he studied Music Technology at Flinders Street School of Music from ’98 - ’00 and has since released numerous albums and various collaborations with artists from all forms of art. His music has been played nationally in Australia on Triple JJJ, Radio National, various community stations & is included on compilations produced by Surgery Records, ABC, LaTrobe & Semikazi. TR!P has received the SAMIA for: Most Popular Electronic / Dance Act, Public Vote ’04 - The New Pollutants and the Most Popular DJ Award, Public Vote ‘98, dB Magazine: Reader Awards - Best DJ ‘04 & ‘03 and the Most Popular Dance Act - The New Pollutants ’03 & recently received the SAYAB: Education & Arts Ministers Awards 2006.
42:LTU
Tyson is a Team Member of Carclew Youth Arts' 42:LTU Project representing Contemporary Music Composition.
Tyson Hopprich: “This project will excite, provoke, question & inform me as an artist and create new and lateral pathways into my given art form”
Find more information on 42:LTU
DJ Tr!p has been involved with Carclew for a very very long time. Recent Carclew ventures include Musicians In Schools workshops in Pt Augusta and winner of the 2006 Education & Arts Ministers' Awards!
DJ Tri!p Website
DJ TR!P describes himself as a lo-fi electro-sonic composer.
"As an artist I explore and distill sonic textures. These sounds reveal an environment clouded by layers of frequencies and definition.
"I investigate deeper soundscapes, visiting the sublime and then return, audio reaching swallowed ambience to a create a very disturbed electronica. My work narrates fairytales of darkness, and the dirt in which organised noise-fruits thrive!"
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Onion Magazine, Adelaide
"Tr!p, judging by Recyclise's quality wares, revels in lo-fi experimentation... Just as he effortlessly makes it work. Obviously recording Recyclise on a small budget, Tr!p hasn't let his artistic scope be sacrificed. Quite the opposite. Recycling an audio backshed crammed with sonic bibs and bobs, Tr!p has created a mutant tech-electro pastiche, equally melodic and psychotic, of world class... Vinyl crackles and nutty vocal snippets symbolise Recyclise's nostalgic character, suggesting Tr!p tinkered obsessively over this personal creation in a time unspoiled by mass-produced dance. Recyclise will make you think and react. Tr!p is to be praised" BZM
OnDit, Adelaide
"Across genre barriers, Vinyl Perplexa exudes a kind of digital-cum-analog amibence. The fusion of lo-fi sampling and vinyl hiss suggests that you may be listening to something transmitted from a distant star system rather than something made in your home town"
Steve Finney
The New Pollutants – Hygene Atoms CD Launch:
The New Pollutants are Adelaide electronic artists Mr Speed and DJ Tr!p. Their debut cd is entitled - Hygene Atoms. Mr Speed and DJ Tr!p met at the start of 2001, and after a brief honeymoon, started collaborating for DJ Tr!p’s Various – Reflex CD. After finishing a song entitled "Online Celebrity", the realisation was clear that their two differing and yet similar styles of audio hi-jacking and manipulation of technologies would bear strange fruit and lead them into uncharted territories of lateral and aural data processing. Thus "The New Pollutants" were cloned, and their debut release Hygene Atoms is the bastard child of that output.
Combing styles of 8bit sonic terror from DJ Tr!p and 16bit vampyre caped vocalisings and production from Mr Speed, The New Pollutants set on to the task of creating an aural placemat for beat expression in the digital age and more importantly to molest the ears of the urban professionals of the new world order. Hygene Atoms is a mish-mash of 8bit hiphop, beat driven electronogica, funk-laden breaks and dark themed soundtracks for 80’s computer games and film scores.
Songs from the CD have already found their way onto the score for an upcoming film by the Young Film-Maker of the Year, a Surgery Records compilation for the Fringe 2002AD festival, another compilation by the Perth electronic collective Semikazi and on the SBS station website.
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Career Highlights:
DJ: Big Day Out, Adelaide 1999
DJ: Biomachines, Adelaide Festival 2000
Performance: PCM Showcase, FOX Studios, Sydney 2000
Performance: Electrofringe, This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle 2000-2001
Performance: Freshbait, Adelaide Fringe 2000
Video clips: Wozone, Womadelaide 2001
TV: Alchemy, SBS Television 2001
TV: MTV, Europe 2001
Performance: Reclaim The Streets, Adelaide 2001
Performance / Workshop: Analogue2Digital 2002AD, Adelaide Fringe 2002
Qualifications:
Certificate 4 in Music Technology, Flinders Street School of Music 2000
Awards:
SAMIA Most Popular DJ, Public Vote 1998
PCM Showcase Award, PCM / ARTSA 2000
Releases:
CD/Tape: Vinyl Perplexa, Independant/Self Funded 1998
CD: Recyclise, Independant/Self Funded 2000
CD: Recyclise Reinterpreted, Independant/Self Funded 2001
CD: DJ TR!P vs danFreak – Rock the Beat, Independant/Self Funded 2001
CD: ECHELON – Phat343 Independant/Self Funded 2001
CD: Cooperblack – ITEM EP Independant/Self Funded 2001
CD: Analogue2Digital2002 Surgery Records 2002
CD: DJ TR!P – VARIOUS (Reflex) Independant/Self Funded 2002
CD: DJ TR!P – VARIOUS (Obtuse) Independant/Self Funded 2002
CD: The New Pollutants – Hygene Atoms Independant/Self Funded 2002
Remixes:
CD: Cooperblack – Presbus (single) Krell Records 2000
CD: Tripwired - Slow Burner Independant/Self Funded 2000
CD: DanFreak Vs Dj Trip Independant/Self Funded 2001
CD: Shimmertek – Penance (single) Independant/Self Funded 2001
CD: SeaSawTrace – Lunch Munchers Independant/Self Funded 2002
DJ Gigs:
Resident DJ: Crown & Anchor Project, Reprise & Version 2000 – 2002
DJ: Exeter Sundy side-up 2001 - 2002
DJ: Pong - Retro Club Night F.A.D 1998 - 1999
DJ: Roller Boogie Skate FX 1999 - 2000
Co-Production:
II - Candy - Live Adeliade Electronica Enigma Bar 2000
Synthetique - Live Adeliade Electronica Rhino Room 2000 – 2001
QWERTY – audio / visual CD Launch Mercury Cinema 2002
Workshops:
Tutor: Spin The Wax, Artery 1999
Tutor: DVFM Xposure, Artery 2000
Tutor: Youth Expo, 2001
Tutor: DVFM, Port Augusta 2001
Tutor: Break the Drought, Port Augusta 2002
Tutor: Sampology, Analogue2Digital Adelaide Fringe 2002
Speaker: Analogue2Digital forum (Old Hardware - Is It Really Dead?) Adelaide Fringe 2002
Film:
Score: The Gods Among Us, Mark Pogorelic 2001
Score: From Violence to Nirvana, Todd Smart 2001
Sound: Gallop Apace, Nicole Pluss 2001
Sound: CAT, Ann Romeo 2001
Music: Skate & Bike Video, Volatile Visions
VJ:
Video: Old Skool - Dance Party 2000
Theatre:
Sound: Vivarium 2333 AD, Kreecha Enterprises 2000
Sound: Dark Heart, Rachel Paterson 2001
Sound: Smashed, Freshbait 2001
Sound: Arenarama, Urban Myth 2001
Sound: One in Six, Fishkiss Productions, Fringe 2002
Sound: Magpie, Sarah Neville 2002
Sound: Rocket ART EXHIB., Fringe 2002
Sound: Up Front and Naked, Adelaide Festival Centre 2002
Sound: ADA, Canberra 2002
Graphic Design:
Art work: Deeper Underground Exhibition, AGDA, Sector 7G & Ok101 2000
Artwork: QJumping, Shop@rt 2000
Other Projects:
Co-producer: Cooperblack
Co-producer: Echelon
Co-producer: Freshmen
Co-producer: The New Pollutants
