Eden Grey aka Dr. Chelsea Bruno is a prolific composer of electronic music. Seven years of lessons in classical piano from age 9-16 had a major outcome on her aesthetic. First composing songs on the piano in her teenage years, she began using a USB/MIDI keyboard at age 18 to begin recording electronic music in Ableton Live. She pursued an undergraduate degree at the University of Miami in visual art, sculpture, performance art, poetry, and literature, and first began to participate in electronic music seminar classes.
Chelsea completed her Masters’ degree in Music Technology at Florida International University in 2014, which opened her world to the history of electronic music composers and led to her first patching experiments, creating algorithmic compositions using Max/MSP. Her Masters’ thesis is titled “Vocal Synthesis and Deep Listening”.
She was a recipient of the Presidents’ Innovation Award to attend the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) convention in Anaheim, California in January of 2013, where she first discovered the Eurorack format of modular synthesis. She began working on her own custom Eurorack later that year during her graduate internship with synthesizer developers 4MS Company in Portland, Oregon, where she learned to build and play Eurorack synthesizers.
She began her PhD in Music Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London in September 2014 and was focusing on collaborative and interdisciplinary sound art performance and fixed media projects. Her PhD evolved into a full-on of synthesizers and composing electronic music with hardware and software. She was formally awarded in June of 2020 with her dissertation titled: “A Portfolio of Compositions Exploring Modular Synthesis in Electronic Music”.
She continues actively releasing music herself and with different independent labels and hosting the CV FREQS events, gatherings of electronic music artists and Eurorack module manufacturers.
