Ruben Tenenbaum began music in Nancy with the learning of the violin and liturgical singing. The discovery of Ottoman music led him to settle for seven years in Istanbul where he trained with the masters.
Ruben Tenenbaum works extensively on modal improvisation (taksim) with Serdar Pazarcıoğlu, Fahrettin Çimenli, Necati Çelik and Derya Türkan. He performs Ottoman classical music with the Lâmekân Ensemble with whom he records three albums.
At the same time, he develops his improvisation practice: acoustic and electric, where he constantly tries to bring together distant sounds without taking his eyes off the world around him.
Alla turca melodies of dÜmbÜk KorKuluK's grindcore and changing counterpoints to the improvised poetry of drummer Teresa Riemann in Naked in the Zoo echo the dark commentary on current events of Demain Damas and the bio-sonic fable Fusion Mitotique.
