Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Rena Jones: The diva of ambient cello

[sonar sound] + This is an Echo Location: Soundings for New Music.

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IF YOU'RE A GAMER, YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD SOME OF RENA JONES'S MUSIC.

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RJ: I write music for Dance, Dance Revolution.

Music Bite

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rj: I write under an alter ego named Jena Rose. So, Rena Jones just swapped the first and last. And I just finished some IPhone games and a game called Genesis.

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BUT IT'S HER SOLO MUSIC THAT DRIVES RENA JONES. ON HER LATEST ALBUM, INDRA'S WEB SHE ORCHESTRATES A HAUNTING WORLD OF ELECTRONICS AND STRINGS,

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THE ELECTRONIC LANDSCAPE IS NOT A HOME TO MANY WOMEN LAPTOP COMPOSERS. RENA JONES IS AMONG THE FEW AND SHE'S SUFFERED A BIT OF DIGITAL DISDAIN IN HER YOUNG CAREER. ELECTRONICA ARTIST EVAN BLUETECH.
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EB: It’s such a kind of male ego driven, deejay driven, electronic music community that, that people don’t necessarily give her tons of respect when she comes in, so it’s been interesting.

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RENA NOT ONLY PROGRAMS HER OWN ELECTRONICS, SHE DOES SOMETHING ALMOST NO OTHER LAPTOP JOCKEY CAN DO. SHE PLAYS CELLO AND VIOLIN, CREATING HER OWN BRAND OF GLITCH FLECKED, RHYTHMICALLY ELLIPTICAL, AMBIENT CHAMBER MUSIC.

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RENA JONES'S FIRST TWO CDS WERE WRAPPED AROUND PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS LIKE THE TRANSMIGRATION OF THE SOUL AND THE CYCLE OF LIFE. INDRA'S WEB MIXES BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY AND QUANTUM PHYSICS.

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RJ: Indra’s Web is a Buddhist philosophy that everything’s interconnected...... And, this one is definitely a lot more abstract and kind of is in line with, I feel like what a lot of people are really talking about and what’s going on with a lot of quantum physics. And, the ideas of the holographic universe. So, I decided it was a very good time to write an album based on these concepts.

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YOU DON'T HAVE TO UNDERSTAND QUANTUM MECHANICS OR THE MIND OF BUDDHA TO GET TANGLED UP IN RENA JONES' "INDRA'S WEB," RELEASED ON CARTESIAN BINARY RECORDS. I'M JOHN DILIBERTO AND THIS HAS BEEN AN ECHO LOCATION.

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