
Cristian Vogel - Springsix Festival - Austria - May 2006
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Genre: Techno
Date of Set: May 27th, 2006
Filesize: 66.10 MB
Total Downloads: 30
Biography of Cristian Vogel
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, Johnathan 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. His most recent full length, 'Station 55' has been described as 'an album which will keep you awake at night in all the wrong ways'. He has toured consistently since 1992 as DJ and live performer, both as a solo artist and with Jamie Lidell as Super_Collider. As a remixer, he has been invited to reinterpret songs by artists as diverse as Radiohead, Maximo Park, Thom Yorke, Juan Atkins, Pedro Carneiro amongst many others. Cristian Vogel's producer credits include albums for Chicks On Speed, Panico, Virüs, Las Perras del Infierno and others.
Since 2002, he 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 for international 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.
As if that wasn't enough, Cristian is also behind four independent record labels, Station 55 Records , Rise Robots Rise Records, Mosquito Records and Sleep Debt Records, as well as hosting a long running internet community known as Erutufon.
He is resident producer at the Station 55 Electronic Music Studio in Barcelona.
http://www.myspace.com/cristianvogel
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