chra is a producer of electronic music and bass player based in vienna.
Chra is the alter ego of Viennese author, DJ, music addict and radio/TV presenter Christina Nemec. After a period experimenting with low frequencies and noise effects, chra started to work on more club-friendly beats, using sinewaves processed through a tape recorder and other analogue and digital tools to allude to landscapes, territories, silence and extraordinary and extreme situations. She is also a member of Shampoo Boy and SV Damenkraft, has made performance works with Lydia Lunch, and runs her own label, Comfortzone.
Christina Nemec is a student, author, DJ, musicaddict and doing radio- and tv-shows in vienna,
chra is co-founder and co-owner of vienna based label: comfortzone
bandmember with: SV DAMENKRAFT, the APP, Pasajero Oscura and SHAMPOO BOY
Projects:
2009/2010
Performance: THE GUN IS STILL LOADED with Lydia Lunch and Mia Zabelka
Performance: BATTLE SCARS with Lydia Lunch and Mia Zabelka
2011 chra - TWELVE that matter - 12 short compositions / a commission of Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF and IGNM (Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik) in order to pay tribute to women inspiring my thoughts and ideals: virginia woolf, käthe leichter, miriam makeba, alice walker, delia derbyshire, phoolan devi, tine plesch, johanna dohnal, gabriele michalitsch, ceija stojka, wendy carlos and buffy sainte-marie.
2012: the APP (soundtrack: white zombie, 1932)
Part of Festival für extensive Kunst - CUBE
RE:Composed Arbeiterinnenlieder
2013 - AGORA II (Theater Garage X mit Schorsch Kamerun, Ana Threat, Philipp Quehenberger und Sebastian Janata)
Releases:
2014: chra - dia de los muertos - synthesis vol1 compilation
2014: Shampoo Boy - 12" Nebel/Nadel (Substance Records)
2014: chra - snowbird (wire tapper 34)
2013: Shampoo Boy - Licht (BEB)
2013: chra remix - drag (crystal soda cream)
2012: chra - sonic travel diary (hörstadt linz)
2012: chra & Mathias Schaffäuser - Nice2havefriends - ware
2012: chra - der mann das ist ein lustobjekt (Re:Composed)
2012: first fatal kiss - go! go! go! (chra-cover)
2011: Greie Gut Fraktion - Rekonstruktion Baustelle (remix)
2011: TWELVE that matter – limited edition cz014 comfortzone
2011: chra – von der liebe ep remixed by mathias schaffhäuser – cz010 comfortzone
2009: chra – derive 12“ album – cz001 comfotzone
2009: chra – track: before – autark 10
2009: chra – track: hectic night – cdrom-projekt: dig me out
2008: chra – Verstreichen download EP auf www.autark-net.org
2008: Mopedrock! – 10“EP
2008: Orlanding the dominant CD – eine queere Burlesque mit Gustav,
SV DAMENKRAFT & Sissy Boyz
2008: dvd female pressure – dvd-compilation
2006: women take back the noise - compilation
2006: open sounds: vienna - compilation
2006: remixing the bundeshymne - compilation
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cz001 chra - derive 12" LP
cz010 chra - von der liebe - remixed by Mathias Schaffhäuser
Blackest016 SHAMPOO BOY - Licht
RSD2014 SHAMPOO BOY - Nadel/Nebel