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

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Best known for her unique ambient-electronic chamber music, Rena has released her music on groundbreaking labels such as Twisted Records (U.K.). LOCI Records, Iboga Records, Aleph Zero, 1320 Records, Disco Gecko, Liquid Sound Design, Schematic, Ultimae, and her own imprint, Cartesian Binary Recordings. Three of Jones’s solo albums have been named among the Top 30 Albums of the Year on Echoes Radio PRX, and her recent collaboration with KiloWatts, Caesura, reached #2 on the same chart for 2024.

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Classically trained on violin and later on cello and viola, she expanded her practice to include electronic music production, audio engineering, synthesizers, sound design, and drum machines—her expressive cello work earning her the distinction of “the Diva of Ambient Cello” from Echoes Radio PRX. Her expansive catalog spans composing for the award-winning video game Dance Dance Revolution and Adobe, as well as custom sound design for Twisted Tools and Keith McMillen Instruments.

“The revered daughter of San Francisco's electronic music scene” — OEM Radio. Rena began her solo career in the fertile pulse of the Bay Area electronic underground, where she earned her Audio Engineering degree and cut her teeth as an Audio Engineer at an Oscar-nominated studio. Immersed in a cultural moment that would ripple far beyond the West Coast, she performed as a headliner at countless festivals and events alongside artists like Tipper, The Glitch Mob, Shpongle, Bassnectar, and Ott—becoming part of a movement that redefined the boundaries of electronic music.

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Along the way, she contributed to a host of timeless albums, including STS9’s seminal release Artifact, and later played a role in the development of Pro Tools as an employee at Avid—deepening a technical fluency that runs parallel to her artistic voice. Rooted in classical training yet unbound by genre, Rena’s work bridges the organic and the synthetic, the emotional and the precise—crafting immersive sonic worlds that continue to evolve at the intersection of music, technology, and human experience.

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Rena's highly sought-after string playing has landed her on albums with Younger Brother (Simon Posford, Shpongle), Emancipator, STS9, edIT (Glitch Mob), Funckarma, Beats Antique, Sophie Barker (Zero 7), and Grammy-nominated artist J. Viewz. 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, while she continues to operate her own studio, 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.

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Extensive tours around North America and Europe have lead Rena to perform at some of the worlds most established cutting-edge electronic music festivals; Glade Festival (UK), The Secret Garden Festival (UK), Decibel Festival, Burning Man Shambhala Music Festival (Canada), Symbiosis, Lightning in a Bottle as well as tour support for Plaid and opener for Wax Tailor, Ladytron, and Trentemøller, bringing her immersive, emotionally rich sound to international audiences.

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A fierce advocate for musicians, Rena is a voting member of the Recording Academy’s Producers & Engineers Wing and serves as a District Advocate, championing artists’ rights and equitable industry policy. In this role, she has worked directly with members of Congress to help pass the Save Our Stages Act, the MusicCares Act, and the No Fakes Act, which, if passed, would protect artists from exploitative uses of artificial intelligence.