|
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.
|