Chiasm is a dark electro project, ran by Emileigh Rohn from Detroit, USA. Reform is her third full length album released on COP int. It took her almost 3 years to complete this album but it’s definitely worth the wait. Side Line magazine said several years ago that Chiasm is together with Android Lust and Unter Null the top of female electro and with this album she proves they are right. An album worth checking out for everyone who likes intelligent electronic music.

Chiasm – Reform

DENY:

"Deny" was all about the samples. It's one of the first new songs I put together for the album, and the one crashing sample I'd made had such a great beat that it inspired the song around it.

SOULPRINT:

To me, it's obvious by listening what the song is about, perhaps not to everyone. In 2006 I'd written an open invitation to my fans to share their personal stories with me while I was going through a crisis of my own. One person's response gave me the strength to open up and write "Soulprint", which was difficult and necessary. His story was a new perspective on my own and allowed me to confront my feelings through the lyrics of the song. He's in the thanks.

UNITY:

The moment I heard the "Unity" sample in Star Trek - Nemesis, I knew I had to write this song. I'd had the bulk of it put together since before Relapse was released, and finally collected it all for Reform.

THE CAFFEINE CYCLE:

This song may have gone through the most permutations of any on Reform before its final version, and it's one I'm most happy with. I think it does a good job of expressing both the manic and sedate versions of my personality that often feel in constant struggle with each other, and may very well exist due to my incessant caffeine habit. So there it is, the cycle of my day.

REFORM:

The original version of "Reform" was first released on my demo album, Embryonic, in 1998. It was extremely experimental and rough to start, and the new version is although still quite segmented, a more cohesive and newer take on the emotional state it represented for me. It was the first existing track I knew I needed to put on this album, and therefore named after as the title track.

A SECTION OF TIME:

Ok, this track started off with another one-word name, and a fan had recently commented that "all" my songs had one-word titles, so I felt the need to mix it up a bit. After trying to explain aloud what the song was about, I eventually broke down stating it's really about "a section of time", and that became it's new title. It represents the hopeful moments I've had during the past few years and was set on the shelf during the times that weren't. Luckily something good happened and I was enabled to finish it. For that, I am grateful.

DECEIVERS:

I wrote this track very quickly on a burst of traumatic inspiration and was amused by it's catchiness and the bouncy state it put me in during such an aggressive reaction.

WON:

I came up with the lyrics and melody for this track while walking in a park nearby. I call it the swan park because there's always swans, and it has bridges in a big circle over a river. I think it stimulates my brain to be there.

INCUBATE:

The original version of this track is indeed titled "Incubator" on Embryonic, a song which did not have lyrics, and "Incubate" just fit better once I added them. It started out as a track about science and turned into something more about harboring feelings while they stew inside you.

EXTINGUISH:

The song was written to accompany a film I'd been part of in 1997 about suicide, and I had a really difficult time approaching the subject matter, so it's a track I put off, and put off for quite a while. Like 10 years. I had the piano track ready for a while, and then I added samples of a no-drum drum circle i'd participated in at Ascension UK in 1998 with some friends, a place that really inspired me to go ahead in starting this project. So it has a creepiness factor for me too, since it was also the venue where the film was made. After attending a funeral recently, I was able to put a new spin on the track and finished it up, also one of my favorites on the album. I guess sometimes it's not so bad to take your time.

Extinguish: The Film
In 1997, naive and with plenty of theatrical experience, I agreed to participate.

We filmed it in one take since they only had the camera for 24 hours.

It was presented at a detroit film festival and went over more than well. I was later asked to create a soundtrack for the film. Hesitant of the subject matter, and not sure how to approach it musically, it took me over 10 years to complete.

In the past couple of years i've become more familiar with emotional role i had portrayed than ever anticipated, so to watch the film now to me is nothing short of terrifying. the song grew into far more than an accompaniment to the film, but a personal journey in self-resolve, and an emotional document of what i've experienced.

So it's not really being promoted as a music video, since that it is not. just a short film that inspired a song.

It can be viewed here: www.outsiderfilmworks.com/extinguish