User:Cristian vogel/Cristian Vogel 2

Cristian Vogel is a composer and music producer, known for his experimental DJ and Live performances, studio composition and production. Born in Chile 1972 but growing up in the UK, he now lives and works in Barcelona. He studied 20th Century Music at Sussex University, under the tutor-ship of the British composers, Jonathan Harvey and Martin Butler. Over more than a decade he has recorded a number of albums and released on eminent experimental techno labels such as Tresor Berlin, Novamute and Mille Plateaux. He has toured consistently since 1992 as DJ and live performer, both as a solo artist and with the group 'Super_Collider'. In recent years, focus has changed from experimental techno to other applications of his audio and compositional knowledge. Since 2001 he has moved on to working as album producer and mixer for bands that have included Chicks On Speed, Panico and Las Perras del Infierno. Since 2003, Cristian has returned to electro-acoustic composition, composing three original scores and live soundtracks for the renound Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin. These pieces ( 2-0-0-3, Delicado, Steak House) have been performed and toured by Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve, Gulbenkian Ballet Lisbon, and Gilles Jobin's own company Parano. Cristian has recently finished composing for the fourth collaboration with Gilles Jobin's company, Double Deux, a large scale performance for 12 dancers, premiered on May 14th 2006 in Theatre de Bonlieu of Annecy. As well as contemporary dance, Cristian has been involved in other art projects with internationaly renowned multi-media artists - Roland Olbeter's 'Sound Cluster' for Sonar Barcelona 2003, Artificiel's 'Bulbes' for the Montreal museum of Contemporary Art in 2003 and Stefan Brüggeman's 'A Production of Nothing' in 2005. Cristian is behind three independent record labels, Rise Robots Rise Records, Mosquito Records and Sleep Debt Records, as well as hosting a long running internet community known as Erutufon ( http://www.no-future.com ). He is resident producer at the electronic music studio known as Station55 in Barcelona.