In the 1990s, as a student at the University of Michigan School of Music and Technology,[3] Nicholas released his first full-length album The Vision.
[5] His accomplishments have included playing large synthpop festivals[6] alongside 1980s acts like Alphaville and Anything Box,[7] winning songwriting contests (such as the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 2006[8]), and even placing music on a few television shows - such as the Matthew Fox series Haunted.
[13] Cosmicity has remixed songs for iconic 1980's synthpop bands such as Red Flag, and, Real Life,[14] as well as popular modern acts including The Bird and the Bee in 2012.
[15] Between 1994 and 2005, Cosmicity released seven full-length CDs[16] The Vision (1994), The Moment (1995), Isabella (1997), Renaissance (1998), The Binary Language of Love (1999), Pure (2001), Escape Pod for Two (2003), in addition to two EPs, Syn (1996) and Forgive Me My Syns (1998), a remix album Resynthesized (1999), and two greatest hits compilations, In Perspective (1998) and CD/DVD combo Definitive: 1997 - 2004 (2005).
[17] During the years spanning 2006-2009, Mark Nicholas released two albums (Duchess 33 - 2007, Perversions - 2008) under his given name,[18] dropping the Cosmicity project name so he could concentrate on more industrial sounds - and darker lyrics.