The name draws inspiration from a single line in Aldous Huxley's prophetic social critique Brave New World. School of Emotional Engineering is a loosely defined 'band', more of a 'project' created by composer Ben Frost. Primarily Frost, alongside multi-instrumentalist and engineer Daniel Rejmer, bassist and guitarist Andy Hazel, violin player Russell Fawkus and drummer Jova Albers, School of Emotional Engineering (S.E.E) began originally in Melbourne, Australia as a live extension of Frost's solo work.