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MC Trey Bio

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on 28 April 2008
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MC TREY Bio

Dubbed ‘a national treasure’ by Inthemix.com.au
ARIA, Urban Music, 3D and Jack Awards nominee.

Over the past 12 years, Trey has established herself as a prominent artist within hip-hop & urban music in Australia. Her unique style offers a fresh serve of positive, melodic & insightful rhymes & rhythms ‘bout life, love & her experiences.

She began writing lyrics in primary school, while listening to reggae, island music and what ever was on the radio, and was introduced to hip-hop through movies like ‘Krush Groove’ and music videos by ‘Rock Steady Crew’, but wasn’t propelled to rap her own words over beats until the early 90’s. Her Fijian heritage and father’s gospel singing helped inspire & mould Trey’s musical abilities.

Her current project is an exciting collaboration with fellow MC, Maya Jupiter (Triple J/ Channel V) and DJ Nick Toth as hip-hop trio, Foreign Heights. They have just released an album of the same name, through Grindin’/ Central Station Records. This album features Mystro (UK), Eternia (Canada), with production by Pmoney (NZ), Mr. Zux, Kut Master Kurt (USA), and more.

Trey has entertained crowds around Australia, NZ, the US, UK & Japan and is currently working on her solo album, due for release in 2008.

HIGHLIGHT SHOWs INCLUDE:

SPIRIT FESTIVAL (Syd ‘08), PLATFORM 1 HIP-HOP FESTIVAL (Syd ’08), SLUM VILLAGE (Syd ‘07), BIG DAY OUT (Syd, Melb, G.Coast) ‘07, ‘02 ‘01 ‘00 LUPE FIASCO (Syd,Melb) ‘07, COMMON (Syd, Melb) ‘06, FIJI YOUTH DAY (Syd) ) ‘05 & ’06, PYRAMID ROCK festival (Vic) ‘05 & ‘06, PASIFIKA festival (Syd) ‘05 & ‘06, MULTICULTURAL festival(Canberra) ‘05, PACIFIC UNITY festival (Syd) ‘05, SYDNEY WRITERS festival (Syd) ‘05, BIG DAY OUT NZ/OZ tour ‘04, PASIFIKA festival (NZ) ‘04, The BASEMENT (Syd) ‘03, XZIBIT (Syd) ‘03, HOMEBAKE (Syd) ‘01, NEWTOWN festival (Syd)’01, LIKS show (Melb), VIBES (Perth, Syd)’01, ‘00, WAITANGI festival (Syd) ‘00, ST.KILDA festival (Melb) ‘00.

Trey is also a passionate youth arts worker, who has been facilitating hip-hop music workshops for young people around Australia for about 10 years. She was also awarded a Vodafone Australia Foundation, World of Difference grant which allows her to co-ordinate music programs for young people at Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) in Western Sydney. These programs aim to further-develop participant’s writing, communication and performance skills and encourage young people to tell their stories through hip-hop music.

TREY has previously released two albums, ‘Tapastry Tunes’ (Shock Records/ Tapastry Toons, 2003) with production by Australian producers, Danielsan (Koolism), DJ Bonez and UK producer, Spider Johnson, receiving rave reviews from media & listeners all over the country.

… ‘potentially the biggest leap forward for Australian hip-hop, Tapastry Toons covers a lot of ground & does so with style’…Metro/ SMH

‘Daily Affirmations’ (Mother Tongues/ Tapastry Toons, 2000) featured production by Danielsan, Polarity and MCs Aceyalone and Pumpkinhead.

Following the release of ‘Tapastry Toons’, Trey completed a successful Triple J presented East Coast tour, climaxing with a sold out headline show at The Basement (Syd) & ‘Live at the Wireless’ recording on Triple J and graced the 2004 Big Day Out Tour performing in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth & Adelaide.

Trey n Fatt Dexx’s single, Creepin’ received wide spread acclaim for a track that broke the mould of traditional dance/rap tracks delivering a fresh sound and unique rhyme style on high rotation on Triple J. The video hit the top 5 most requested videos on MTV.

Trey has supported and performed onstage alongside Hip-Hop heavy-weights such as: LUPE FIASCO, COMMON, RZA, XZIBIT, JURASSIC5, THE FUGEES, NAUGHTY BY NATURE, RUN DMC, MICHAEL FRANTI,THE ROOTS, BLACKSTAR, BLACKALICIOUS, COMPANY FLOW, CHE-FU, KING KAPISI, SCRIBE AS WELL AS DJS ROC RAIDIA, CASH MONEY, SHADOW & Q-BERT.

…nominated for best female performer at the 2004 Jack Awards…

PREVIOUS RELEASES:

· Foreign Heights CD (Grindin’/ Central Station Records) : ‘07

· Tapastry Toons CD (Tapastry Tunes/Shock records): ‘03

· Creepin’ CD/vinyl single (tv1/sony music) w/Fatt Dexx: ‘01

· Daily Affirmations CD (Tapastry tunes/ Mother tongues): ‘00

· Universal Soldier 12″ (Tapastry tunes/mother tongues): ‘99

· Projectiles US tour tape (Tapastry toons): ‘98

· Projectiles demo CD & Tape (Tapastry toons) w/DJ Bonez:’96/‘97

Trey is currently working on a solo album, due for release late 2008.

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Booking & Info contact: Slingshot@tpg.com.au

www.myspace.com/treythemc
www.myspace.com/foreignheights

Tak [popperbox]

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tak
on 6 April 2008
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Tak is 23 years of age and is part of the Popperbox artist collective, working mainly on the technical side of things. He builds gadgets for art projects, websites and anything else that needs engineering.

He has completed a Bachelor of Software Engineering/Arts in which he received First Class Honours. He has also been a Research Assistant at National ICT Australia for 2 years, where he co-authored several research papers, one of which was accepted in the 2007 International Conference on Software Process.

Currently he is working as an IT programmer in a Sydney based software company, and developing a couple of yet-to-be launched web projects in his spare time.

Some softare applications he has built or is in the process of building include an online e-commerce system, Internet mashups using online APIs from Google and Yahoo, a Facebook application, a virtual self-navigating vehicle and a 3D driving simulator.

His university degree and work captures the spectrum of things he is most passionate about - ranging from human computer interaction and usability design, web development, sociology, culture, history and software development process.

Tina [popperbox]

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tina
on 6 March 2008
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I like to describe myself as a “creative explorer” =] and all i ever want to do is chase my artistic dreams and ermm then take over the world with them! yay!. Now for some pix =]

Old stuff visit: www.redbubble.com/people/sleepygreentofu

Popperbox stuff visit: http://www.popperbox.com/

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T.Williams

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Todd Williams
on 5 March 2008
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born in april 79 to an angel and the son of a salesman always seeing dead people, Brass is a combination of pen and paper. a marking for the uncanny, with a reputable smile. making room for tomorrow and narrowly escaping many a plane crash. spending the past decade redefining his styles, t.williams has manipulated his flow in many forms, looked at paint and usually left it where it sat. scribed page after page of code and with various printers, crack photoshop programs and binding machines, produced several home made DIY books on verse. the experimental left, along with good firend C.K played home to the brainstorm, free to air, world of “macho distorto” a two piece ensemble of glue and water. bricks and sledgehammers. light bulbs and unpaid electricity bills. from this the production list grew and a number of different projects paved the way for hours of seemingly pointless fun. to this day its still the most honest work.
Also known musically for appearing alongside sydney veteran SERECK of DEF WISH CAST and fellow mate SINUS of band 1,2 SEPPUKU, in the highly flammable hardcore  hip hop act CELSIUS. to tackling the live elements of UPSHOT alongside progressive lyricist QURO. The music, the art, the words, the start… all outward and now a youth ambassador [?] slowly turning the gears to create, invent and summon forces that be to build the everlasting school of craziness. working deep in the heart or bowels of sydneys west…? he has helped to produce different music and creative programs with young people to address and express their talents and issues. he has also been a key developer in the western sydney youth festival known as the “Burbs”. this event is based in blacktown and focuses on engaging young people to help develop the every essential part of what it means to run a festival, allowing them the opportunity to gain on the job experience in event coordination and management. this initiative is backed by blacktown city council and many creative energetic individuals who work daily towards creating a better tomorrow for people to be a part of. brass redefined is what dreams may come…

*for further rambling  go to..

http://www.myspace.com/brasshiphop orhttp://utherpe_pl.livejournal.com

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Ben Hoh

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ben
on 26 February 2008
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Ben Hoh is a designer, writer, media artist and community cultural development worker, with a particular interest in how people engage creatively with memory and place. Ben’s writing has been performed at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, and has appeared in the journals Public and Borderlands, and in the anthology Waiting In Space (Pluto Press 199); his short plays have been performed at Belvoir St Theatre and Stables Theatre. Ben’s community cultural development projects include Storybox and Suburban Crossings, which both deal with electronically exploring the everyday life spaces of migration. Ben has created websites for SBS, Lee Jeans, Disney and Information and Cultural Exchange, and his work has won two Australian Interactive Media Industry Awards. He created motion graphics for the Sydney Writers’ Festival’s “Hip Hop Projections” event in 2007. Ben is currently writing a Masters thesis about online, first-person accounts of war, and is a founding member of the interdisciplinary art/research group Tracer.

Matt Huynh Bio

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matthew
on 24 February 2008
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MATT HUYNH is a Sydney based comic creator and illustrator. Huynh’s graphic novels span a diverse variety of genres from surrealist fantasy to polemical essays, dramas and autobiography. His comics work has received recognition from Ledger Award for Excellence in Australian Comic Arts and Publishing, the Australian Cartoonist’s Association, ABC and Sydney Morning Herald. His inky, energetic brushwork has appeared on magazines and prints to clothing, accessories, health resources, tattoos, film, performance projections, vinyl toys and dolls. When he’s not at the drawing table, he can be found conducting instructional workshops, public presentations, exhibitions and live art demonstrations. He’s been known to operate under the pseudonym ‘STiKMAN’, having taken a bad high-school nickname to heart.

Huynh’s participation in artists’ collective, ‘Popperbox’, has fostered an exploration of new media art, performance, installation work and digital work.
Find out more at www.stikmancomics.com and www.popperbox.com.

Alice Angus Bio

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alice
on 21 February 2008
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Alice Angus, co-director of Proboscis, is an artist inspired by rethinking concepts and perceptions of landscape and human relationships to the land. Over the last six years she has been creating a body of art work exploring concepts proximity and remoteness, technology and presence, against the lived experience and local knowledge of a place. With Proboscis her work combines artistic and curatorial and she is currently working on: ‘Lattice’ a project for the British Council’s Creative Cities initiative in East Asia; ‘Anarchaeology’ a new commission with Render at the University of Waterloo Canada, to ‘excavate’ stories and experiences in the Waterloo Region, ‘Snout’, a collaboration with inIVA (Institute for International Visual Arts, London) and researchers from Birkbeck College exploring relationships between the body, community and the environment; Topographies and Tales (2004-2007) a collaboration with Joyce Majiski investigating issues of landscape and identity in the North. Recent projects range from ‘Social Tapestries’ a 5 year research programme exploring the social and cultural benefits of local knowledge sharing enabled by new mobile technologies, ‘Navigating History’ a series of commissions in libraries and ‘Landscapes In Dialogue’ a web based series of video clips and essays inspired by a residency with Parks Canada.

Orlagh Woods Bio

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alice
on 21 February 2008
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Orlagh Woods is an artist whose work combines photography with filmmaking to explore how people and societies communicate with and through each other. She is an experienced arts manager having worked on large projects including Collect & Share, a Europe-wide network promoting lifelong-learning in galleries across Europe, has successfully managed a visual / media artists’ professional development programme and ran an International Residency Programme and artist studio in Northern Ireland. She holds degrees in both Fine Art and Accountancy/French. She is also an experienced TEFL teacher. Her role within Proboscis is Creative Development. She works collaboratively within the Proboscis team to research and develop ideas and projects, make artworks and document & evaluate creatively.