Chelsea Bruno

Chelsea Bruno Biography

Electronic music composer Dr. Chelsea Bruno has been composing and releasing electronic music since 2008 under the artist alias Eden Grey. Her father’s work as a piano technician and rebuilder inspired her to compose at an early age and pursue a career in music.

Seven years of lessons in classical piano 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 started her Masters’ degree in Music Technology at Florida International University in January of 2011, 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”.

While conducting her independent practice-based research, she performed in London, Wales and throughout Europe, including MusicTechFest events in Slovenia, Sweden, Paris, SuperBooth 2017 and 2018 in Berlin and Hamburg in 2019 as part of the ePhil Electronic Music Series. She showed her custom built modular synthesizer at Synthfest UK in Sheffield in 2016 and 2018. She also established the CV FREQS modular meet / concert event series in London during her PhD research from 2016-2019. In this time she organized 12 events at different venues in London including the Waterloo House of Vans Skate Park and the Iklectik Art Lab venue in Lower Marsh, central London.

She continues actively releasing music herself and with different independent labels and hosting the CV FREQS podcast series where she interviews electronic music artists and Eurorack module manufacturers. Most recently, she performed at the Superbooth22 Synthesizer trade show in Berlin, Germany, May 13 2022.

Employment 

Columbus Preparatory Academy

Middle/High school Music Teacher

February 2023 – Present

Educational Aide, Upper Arlington High School                      

 Columbus OH

October 2022 – February 2023

Supervisor: Sharon Moran 

Substitute Teacher, Educational Service Center of Central Ohio 

2080 Citygate Dr. Columbus OH 43219

November 2021 - Present

April 2020 - June 2021

Substitute Teacher, School Professionals

2222 Ponce De Leon Blvd. Coral Gables FL 33134

Supervisor:  Alex Aguilar 

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

• Ableton Live Users Group Guest presentation

Chicago, IL Scheduled: 21 June 2023

• Southern Utah University, Music Technology Dept.

Guest presentation via Zoom, 5 December 2022,  Part 2 Scheduled: 15 March 2023

• The Fuse Factory, Columbus Cultural Arts Center

Workshop leader for Intro to Modular Synthesis, 8 October 2022

• Carnegie Mellon School of Music and Neuroscience Institute

Guest presentation via Zoom, 14 April 2022

• Music Hackspace, London UK (musichackspace.org)

Workshop leader for virtual DIY Shakmat Eurorack module build, 5 December 2020

• University of Miami, Florida

Music and Engineering Forum Visiting Lecturer, 1 February 2019

• Point Blank Music School, Hoxton, London 

Eurorack workshop instructor for Womens’ Day, 4 March 2018

• Royal Holloway, University of London

Visiting lecturer, 17 November 2017

• Morley College, London 

Visiting lecturer, 18 May 2016

• Royal Holloway, University of London

Visiting Lecturer, Fall term 2015

• dBs Music School Berlin

Visiting Lecturer, July 2015

• Solent University, Southampton

Visiting Lecturer, 17March 2015

• 4ms Company, Portland, Oregon 

Graduate Internship, June-August 2013

Royal Holloway, University of London

Ph.D. Music Composition

Florida International University

Master of Music Technology 

University of Miami

Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art