Driftwood is the 3rd full-length album by seasoned studio musician, producer, and performer Rena Jones.

Picked as the 6th most essential album for 2006 on Echoes Radio.

Driftwood sonically paints the life cycle of the tree from Star to Seed...

Gorgeous and so completely alive, Driftwood is a triumph in electronic and classical instrument fusion.
Charity VanDeberg - ReGen Magazine.com

Undercurrent

Driftwood

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From Star to Seed

Aurora Borealis

Photosynthesis

Cypress and Evergreen

Seedling

Driftwood is the 3rd full-length album by seasoned studio musician, producer, and performer Rena Jones.

Picked as the 6th most essential album for 2006 on Echoes Radio.

Driftwood sonically paints the life cycle of the tree from Star to Seed...

"Gorgeous and so completely alive, Driftwood is a triumph in electronic and classical instrument fusion." - Charity VanDeberg - ReGen Magazine.com

The Passing Storm

Firefly

Sea of Bubbles

“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 and Adobe. Created sound design for Twisted Tools and Keith McMillen Instruments, and contributed to the development of Pro Tools.

Her music has been released on influential labels including Emancipator's LOCI Records, Aleph Zero, 1320 Records, Disco Gecko, Liquid Sound Design, Schematic, and Ultimae, while she also runs her label, Cartesian Binary Recordings. With three 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. "The Diva of Ambient Cello"- PRX—Rena’s distinctive string work has also appeared on albums by Younger Brother (Simon Posford/Shpongle), 
Emancipator, Sophie Barker (Zero 7), STS9, edIT (Glitch Mob), Beats Antique, and others.

A seasoned audio engineer, Rena 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, where 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 Producer and 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 current legislation under the No Fakes Act to protect artists’ rights from artificial intelligence.

New tracks tagged #STS9