Emileigh Rohn is a solo artist who produces the dark industrial electronic … Read Full Bio ↴Emileigh Rohn is a solo artist who produces the dark industrial electronic music project Chiasm signed by Cop International records. She has released three full-length albums, Disorder, Relapse, and REFORM, and her music has been featured on several compilation CDs, in the PC video game Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines by Troika Games, on the CBS television series NCIS and in the independent film Extinguish released by Outsider Filmworks. The name Chiasm (Greek χίασμα, "crossing") comes from the biological term of the crossing of optic neurons in the brain that allow people to have continuous and peripheral vision. Chiasm is produced in Detroit, USA.

At the age of five, Emileigh Rohn began taking piano lessons from her church organist, Mildred Benson, and eventually began singing solos in church. By the age of 13 she received a Casiotone keyboard and began experimenting with electronic music. In her final year of high school she joined an experimental/industrial performance art group called Inter Animi.

In the fall of 1997, while studying molecular biology in Detroit, Rohn joined Calvin P. Simmons in his project Dragon Tears Descending (DTD) as a keyboardist doing performances and supporting other bands. Rohn then left DTD and formed her own project Electrophoretic Transfer in 1998.

Chiasm began in 1998 when Rohn began to entirely produce her own music with her first demo CD named "Embryonic" completed in October. Her song "Bouncing Baby Clones" was featured on a Detroit Electronica compilation CD, D[elEcTROnIc]T, in the spring of 1999. By March 2001, Rohn released her debut album, Disorder on COP International.

Following Disorder, the track "Isolated" was released on the PC Game, "Vampire-The Masqurerade-Bloodlines" as well as used in an episode of the CBS series "Navy:NCIS" in 2003 coinciding with the release of the remix album with labelmate Threat Level 5 titled "Divided We Fall: The Remix Collection". The second full-length solo album, "Relapse" was released in 2005, also on COP.

Chiasm released a virtual single, "Prefrontal EP", exclusively on iTunes in 2006 through COP International. Her new full-length album, titled "REFORM", was released in September 2008! "REFORM" CDs are now available! Be sure to check out the new Facebook page, and keep in touch with her on Myspace where new remixes and random older tracks are also posted for streaming!

Emileigh is currently working on new material, an album called "11:11" and remixes/collaborations with other artists.

For more information, see her web site, www.chiasm.org

Petals
Chiasm Lyrics

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Seek the night and someday you will find/walls are full of petals in my mind
I cannot throw the flowers away
So on the walls they hang
Their leaves surrounding me
Silently they speak
My world is overwhelming
All is waking me from sleep
And moments left are telling me to peek

At all the colors left behind

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Chiasm's song "Petals" speaks to the idea of seeking solace in the darkness, which is where one would find the beauty of the world around them. The walls being full of petals in the singer's mind implies the idea of imagination and how, even in the darkness, one can still visualize the beauty of nature. The metaphorical use of "petals" as something beautiful, fragile, and fleeting is appropriate. The chorus in "Petals" is indicative of the singer's reluctance to let go of the beauty of the world, represented by the flowers. The unique use of "they speak silently" shows the relationship between nature and the individual; nature may not speak directly, but it is always present.

The lyrics also convey that the world is overwhelming, and the singer is being forced to wake up from their sleep; the waking moments are telling the singer to look at all the colors that have been left behind. This is an intriguing line as it conveys a significant message about the human experience. Life moves quickly, and it's crucial to appreciate the beauty in the small moments because eventually, they will have passed. The message being that even after the darkness has gone, there will always be something beautiful to appreciate.

Line by Line Meaning

Seek the night and someday you will find walls are full of petals in my mind
If you explore the unknown, someday you may discover the beauty hidden in my thoughts.

I cannot throw the flowers away
I am unable to forget the memories of the past.

So on the walls they hang
I hold on to my memories and cherish them.

Their leaves surrounding me
My past always surrounds me, wherever I go.

Silently they speak
The memories are always with me, silently reminding me of the past.

My world is overwhelming
The emotions and feelings of the past are too much for me to bear.

All is waking me from sleep
The memories of the past are keeping me from moving on and living in the present.

And moments left are telling me to peek
The little moments of the past are urging me to remember the beautiful times.

At all the colors left behind
I remember the colorful times of the past and cherish them, never wanting to forget them.

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