Emileigh Rohn

Emileigh Rohn is a musician from Detroit in the US state of Michigan . Your CDs are distributed by COP International . She is the operator of the electronic music project Chiasm, which she founded in 1998 . The project name (from Greek  χίασμα , chíasma , "the intersection") is the English term for the junction of the optic nerves (the optic chiasm ) that enables people to see in space .

Life

Childhood and school days

At the age of five Rohn took his first piano lessons with her church organist Mildred Benson . At 13, she got a Casio - keyboard and began to experiment with electronic music. In junior high school and high school , she was active in musical and theater groups and wrote plays for her school's annual vaudeville performance. In her final year of high school, she and others founded the artist group Inter Animi , which performed experimental industrial performances in clubs in Michigan for several years .

Education

After graduating from high school, Rohn studied molecular genetics and took additional courses in poetics , holography and photography . She tries to incorporate all of these fields into her artistic work. During her studies she worked as an actress in Brian Sullivan's black and white film Extinguish , which deals with the problem of suicide and premiered in 1997 at an art exhibition in Detroit . In October 1997 she joined the band Dragon Tears Descending as a keyboardist, but her musical preferences shifted more and more towards electronic and she quickly left the band and instead started her own music project together with Shane Terpening called Electrophoretic Transfer , the after a demo CD called Post Coitum, however, terpening quickly came to an end due to a change of residence.

Chiasm

In October 1998, Rohn released her Chiasm debut album Embryonic . In spring 1999 the track Bouncing Baby Clones followed on the electronic compilation '' D [elEcTROnIc] T ''. In March 2001 she released her first album under the COP Intl. -Label, Disorder , whose track Isolated became famous years after its original release through its inclusion in the computer game Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and the television series Navy CIS . A crossover - remix version of the album with the participation of TL5 was published of 2003. In 2008 her latest album Reform was released . Her songs have also been released on a total of 11 samplers.

Discography

• Embryonic (1998)

Tracks: Enemy; Embryonic; Bouncing baby clones; Reliance; Chiasm; Fight; Incubator; To die; Someone; Fake Smile (created in collaboration with JC Slaughter ; bonus track)

• Disorder (2001)

Tracks: Formula; Chiasm 5.0; Transparent; Disorder; Fight; Liquefy; Isolated; Cold; Enemy; Someone

• Divided We Fall: The Remix Collection (in collaboration with TL5 ( Threat Level 5 ); Remix by Disorder; 2003 )

Tracks: Disorder; Formula; Isolated; Transparent; Liquefy; The System; Images; Rivethead; Inside; The Light That Burns

• Relapse (2005)

Tracks: Embryonic; Surrender; Delay; Rewind; Quiet; X-ray; Incision; Phobic; Needle; Chosen Fate; Rewind ( "Floating Tears Mix" by ZIA ; bonus track); Surrender ( "Dark Techno Mix" by TL5 )

• Reform (2008)

Tracks: Deny; Soulprint; Unity; The Caffeine Cycle; Reform; A Section of Time; Deceivers; Won; Incubate; Extinguish

• 11:11 (2012)

Tracks: Petals; Angry tree; I want some more; The Sea; Hideaway; So Lost; Draw A House; Answer In My Mind; Reliance; Obligatory; Space

Web links

• Website of Chiasm (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the film Extinguish ( Memento of February 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ List of all CDs with the help of Chiasm (including samplers)