Cristian Vogel is a long-term innovator in the composition, mixing and performance of electronic sounds. His professional career as an independent creator working in advanced music and technology, has established him as an outstanding influence in the fields of composition for stage, club culture and studio.

Born in Chile 1972. Educated in the UK. Since 2001 he has lived in Barcelona, Berlin and Geneva. He is currently a Danish resident in Copenhagen where he continues to compose and teach. His current business venture, NeverEngine Labs, is an independent startup developing tools for advanced spectral composition and digital signal processing.

Performance (Highlights)

(selected from approximately 500+ professional appearances)

Sonar Festival (1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2010)

Berlin Love Parade (1993-2004)

Meltdown Festival curated by John Peel, South Bank (1998)

Primavera Sound Festival (2004)

Mutek Festival Montreal (2008)

Casa Encendida Madrid (2004)

Krake Festival Berlin (2013)

Venice Biennale (1995)

Berlin Tresor Club (1994-2007)

Berlin Berghain (2011)

Dissonanze Festival Rome (2006)

Womb Tokyo (2005)

Festival Latitudes Contemperain Lille (2006, 2010)

Teatre de la Ville, Paris (2007,2008,2009,2010)

Grand Théâtre de Genève (2003)

Album Releases (Highlights)

(selected from 16 albums and around 400 published song titles)

Eselsbrücke (2013)

Polyphonic Beings (2014)

The Inertials (2012)

Black Swan (2009)

The NeverEngine (2006)

Official remixer for Radiohead ‘Myxamatosis’ (2003)

Raw Digits (with Jamie LIdell as Super_Collider) (2001)

Absolute Time (1995)

Specific Momentific (1993)

Sound Installations and Mixed Media Performances

‘SGR^CAV’ quadrophonic evening @Jazzhouse, Copenhagen (2015)

‘Chemicals for Music Toilet’ soundinstallation @DoofeMusic, HKW Berlin (2014)

'Rumble Fighters' Nordlichter Festival, RadialsystemV Berlin (2014)  

'Gessami' Les Arbris, Arsenic, Lausanne (2009)  

Motion Frames' Swiss Dance Days, Bern (2011)

Publications

'Donkey Bridges: On Creative and Technical Process Behind Eselsbrücke' Hz#18, FYLKINGEN'S NET JOURNAL

‘9:09’ (2009) Ediciones Minimas, Barcelona  

‘Flicker Flicker Silent Wave’ program of the BVA Foundation exhibition at the MACG Mexico City

Original Scores for Dance

(full length scores for the CIE Gilles Jobin dance company)  

Spider Galaxies (2011)  

Black Swan (2009)  

Text To Speech (2008)

Double Deux (2007)

Steak House (2006)

Talks and Presentations (Highlights)

Music Research Colloquia, Oxford University (2012)

RedBull Music Academy (2001 / 2010 / 2011)  

Kyma International Sound Symposium (2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2013)  

Sound and Music Computing Conference (Barcelona 2010)  

Click festival (Hesingør 2015)

Workshop Planning and Facilitation (Highlights)

the 1st Kyma International Sound Symposium (Barcelona 2009)

‘Dialog:Sound and Movement’ (GVASessions, Geneva, 2011)

‘LiveConnections Workshop’ (Electron Festival, Geneva, 2011)

‘TecArtEco MotionFrames Workshop’ (Lugano, 2011)

‘Motion Frames’ (Tokyo, 2012)

Other Posts

Founder @ NeverEngineLabs™ (Copenhagen 2015) Conception, design, marketing and execution of fully web based virtual realtime workshops and software development for users of the Symbolic Sound Kyma DSP environment. www.cristianvogel.com/neverenginelabs

Founder @ Station 55 Productions SL (Barcelona 2005 - 2013) Independent record labels, recording studio and music publishing, working in all aspects of music business and production.

Music Director @ CIE Gilles Jobin (Geneva 2006 - 2012) Composer and music consultant at leading contemporary dance company in Geneva. Workshops and research into music, dance and technology also conducted in collaboration with Dance-tech.net

Co-Founder @ No Future Limited (Brighton 1994 - 2002) Collective of record labels (Mosquito, Rise Robots Rise) recording studio and artist development. Worked in all aspects of music business and production.