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

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Chiasm Lyrics

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I feel so out of place
I cannot show my face
How could it be
There's anyone like me

They leave me far behind
I think they must be blind
No one can see

It's like they stare through me

How can you treat the world this way
Watch others suffer while you play
You stare with pure insanity
You missed what's really inside me

I pass into the other side
Where there is nothing left to hide

And I can roam and wander free
I think I found eternity

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Chiasm's song Transparent present the feeling of isolation and being invisible to others. The opening lines, "I feel so out of place, I cannot show my face," express a sense of disconnect from the rest of society. The singer feels unseen and ignored by others, and this is emphasized by the line "No one can see, it's like they stare through me." The sense of isolation deepens as the singer mourns being left behind by those around them, thinking they must be blind.

The song's meaning takes a more reflective turn in the next verse, as the singer considers the people around them who seem to be oblivious to the suffering of others. The lyrics question how people can "treat the world this way" and "watch others suffer while you play." It is evident that the singer's invisibility has made them more aware of the importance of empathy and human connection. The lyrics shift from questioning society to a reflection on the singer's own journey, "I pass into the other side, where there is nothing left to hide, and I can roam and wander free. I think I found eternity." This final verse suggests that the singer has finally found a sense of freedom and self-acceptance, and is no longer trapped by feelings of isolation and invisibility.

Line by Line Meaning

I feel so out of place
I don't belong

I cannot show my face
I am too ashamed of who I am

How could it be
Why am I the only one like this?

There's anyone like me
I feel isolated and alone in my struggles

They leave me far behind
I am not accepted by society

I think they must be blind
They can't see the real me

No one can see
I am invisible to them

It's like they stare through me
I don't exist in their world

How can you treat the world this way
Why do you hurt others without compassion?

Watch others suffer while you play
You cause pain to those around you for your own amusement

You stare with pure insanity
You are blindly cruel and malicious