“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, and audio engineer who also performs on synthesizers and drum machines, she has composed for the award-winning video game Dance Dance Revolution, composed and 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 LOCI Records, Aleph Zero, 1320 Records, Disco Gecko, Liquid Sound Design, Schematic, and Ultimae, and she runs her label, Cartesian Binary Recordings. With four of her solo albums selected as 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 appeared on albums by Emancipator, 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, Justin Phelps's Cloud City Studios, Recombinant Media Labs SF, Metway Studios U.K., and Emancipator's Wildwood Studios, while continuing to operate her studio, Cartesian Binary Sonic Labs. While obtaining her degree in Audio Engineering, she studied psychoacoustics under legendary studio designer John Storyk, best known for building Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland Studios, further deepening her understanding of the science behind sound, psychoacoustics, and studio design.
Touring extensively across North America and Europe, Rena has performed at top-tier festivals, including Decibel, Shambhala, Secret Garden Festival, Burning Man, Glade Festival, Symbiosis, and Raindance. She has opened for artists Plaid, Ladytron, and Trentemøller. A fierce advocate for musicians, she is a voting member in the Recording Academy’s Producers and Engineers Wing and serves as a District Advocate, championing artist rights and industry reform, where she worked with Congress on behalf of the Academy to help pass the Save Our Stages, the Music Cares Acts and legislation to protect artists' rights from Ariticial intelligence.
