chra – derive cz001
Let Go! Let’s Go! Let us Go!
Failing and Celebrating
Sweating and Swimming
Walking and Starving
chra is the Alter Ego of Christina Nemec. After a long period of experiments in low frequencies and noise-effects, chra starts to work on clubbeats . chra plays with sinuswaves – created through shareware soundeffects - processed through taperecorder and analogue and digital tools: logic, ableton live, 4-track-machine, sampler, and bassguitar … Main topics: landscapes, territories, silence, extraordinary and extreme situations, challenge. chra has been playing shows all over austria, germany, slovenia, norway, mexico, argentina, chile, uruguay and more...
Christina Nemec is a student, author, DJ, musicaddict and doing radio- and tv-shows in vienna,
bandmember with: SV DAMENKRAFT, the APP, Thermo-Fill and some more new bands without names
april 2009 - Performance: THE GUN IS STILL LOADED with Lydia Lunch and Mia Zabelka.
may 2010 – Performance: BATTLE SCARS with Lydia Lunch and Mia Zabelka
2011: Member of femous orchestra
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.
remixes for Greie Gut Fraktion, Mathias Schaffhäuser and SOS
chra is co-founder and co-owner of vienna based label: comfortzone
2012: the APP (soundtrack: white zombie, 1932)
Part of Festival für extensive Kunst - CUBE
RE:Composed Arbeiterinnenlieder
2013: Shampoo Boy (with Peter Rehberg & Christian Schachinger)
Releases:
2012: chra & Mathias Schaffäuser - Nice2havefriends - ware
chra - der mann das ist ein lustobjekt (Re:Composed)
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