Career
She has released four albums.,, and Her music has featured on 12 compilation CDs, in the Personal Computer video game Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines by Troika Games, on the Columbia Broadcasting System television series NCIS and in the independent film released by Outsider Filmworks. The name Chiasm (Greek χίασμα, "crossing") comes from the biology term of the crossing of optic neurons in the brain that allow people to have continuous and peripheral vision (see Optic chiasm).
Chiasm is produced in Detroit, United States of America. 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 with sampling from Shane Terpening by 1998.
Chiasm began in 1998 when Rohn began to entirely produce her own music with her first demo Civil Defense named "" completed in October.
Her song "Bouncing Baby Clones" featured on a Detroit Electronica compilation Civil Defense, DT, in the spring of 1999. In October 1998, Rohn self-released her debut album, on Rodent Recordings and promoted it with instrumental musicians not featured on the album.