“Rena Jones is a polymath. She plays violin, cello, and synthesizers, and immerses her music in the imagery of nature and philosophy. - John Diliberto, Echoes Radio PRX

A classically trained violinist, cellist, electronic music producer, and audio engineer, Rena also performs on synthesizers and drum machines. She has composed for the award-winning video game Dance Dance Revolution, created sound design for Adobe, Twisted Tools, and Keith McMillen Instruments, and contributed to the development of Pro Tools.

Her music has been released on influential labels including LOCI Records, Aleph Zero, 1320 Records, Disco Gecko, Liquid Sound Design, Schematic, and Ultimae. She also runs her own label, Cartesian Binary Recordings. With four of her solo albums named among the Top 30 Albums of the Year on Echoes Radio PRX—and her recent collaboration with KiloWatts, Caesura, reaching #2 on the same chart—Rena’s distinctive string work has also appeared on albums by Emancipator, Sophie Barker (Zero 7), STS9, edIT (Glitch Mob), Beats Antique, and others.

As an audio engineer, she has recorded and mixed at world-renowned studios, including Sylvia Massy’s RadioStar Studios, Justin Phelps’s Cloud City Studios, Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco, Metway Studios in the U.K., and Emancipator’s Wildwood Studios. She continues to operate her own facility, Cartesian Binary Sonic Labs. While pursuing her degree in Audio Engineering, she studied psychoacoustics under legendary studio designer John Storyk—best known for building Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios—which deepened her understanding of the science of sound, psychoacoustics, and studio design.

Touring extensively across North America and Europe, Rena has performed at top-tier festivals including Decibel Festival, Shambhala, Secret Garden Festival, Burning Man, Glade Festival, Symbiosis, and Raindance, and has opened for artists Plaid, Wax Tailor, Ladytron, and Trentemøller.

A fierce advocate for musicians, she is a voting member of the Recording Academy’s Producers & Engineers Wing and serves as a District Advocate, championing artists’ rights and industry reform. In that role, she has worked with Congress on behalf of the Academy to help pass the Save Our Stages Act, the MusicCares Act, and legislation protecting artists’ rights from artificial intelligence.

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