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I am currently playing in 4 projects, One Man Nation and Elekore as well as 2 other nameless collaborations with Buchla Lightning maestro Richard Scott and legendary Mecanium conductor Pierre Bastien.

One Man Nation is my solo project with me dishing out a balanced diet of glitches and electronica for the experimental minded. Elekore on the other hand is a band with CDRK and Mindfuckingboy where we blast straight in the face breakcore with pummeling beats and screaming earshots of political literature that make Atari Teenage Riot look like Atari Infant Diet.

As of time of writing (Sep 2008), I'm working on new releases for all 4 projects slated for 2009.

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One Man Nation's work was best described by Portuguese avant-garde collective Soopa as a "performance that transmitted a deep narrative feeling of geopolitical disenchantment, ingrained into dark textures." This disenchantment exists on more levels than purely narrative, it is exorcised by the use of every part of his body as a whole, that presence with the inclusion of the sounds produced by the intended or accidental gestures and physical actions - everything is technology making anything and everything potentially an instrument, a source of sound, a critique - the avoidance of a priori drawn ways, ontologically reinventing the possibilities of life, and as a living performer/artist, exploring all the possibilities in the here, in the now. Meandering seamlessly through all pigeon-holed genres and trends creating eclectic sounds that stretches boundaries unsurpassed. A renegade producer of electronic music originally from the city-state of Singapore, and has released 3 studio releases to date under the moniker One Man Nation, filled with tunes that “tantalizes one’s ears with a patchwork of everyday samples, delicately drizzled over droning sounds”. On stage, he brings forth his own brand of music and performance art as the various disciplines amalgamate smoothly into the musical flow of improvises beats and samples in an improvised creation of a soundtrack so desolate. One Man Nation aka Marc Chia (b.1982, Singapore) is currently living in Rotterdam finishing his post-graduate in Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute. He has collaborated in his short little lifetime with practitioners of various disciplines such as C-drik Fermont, Damo Suzuki, Zai Kuning, Mindfuckingboy, Olaff Kehler, Richard Scott, Katie Duck, Alfredo Genovesi, Soopa Collective and Pierre Bastien.

Recent en devours include a foray into the realm of new media, presenting new works contained only within the Open-Source framework as well as commencing work on a physical interface for musical performance with a computer.

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