Planet Bones is the solo experimental recording project of Southern California-based musician, writer, researcher, and radio host Diya Anantharaman.

Anantharaman’s live solo performances often feature vocal soundscapes constructed from scratch, poetry, field recordings, drone folk, and the occasional industrial.

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2025’s SAMSARA marks Anantharaman’s growing affinity for elements of industrial music with bitcrushed drums and harsh noise, combined with Anantharaman’s baroque approach to layered, ethereal vocal arrangements. SAMSARA explores the ebb and flow of natural cycles of decay and chronicles earthly rot and resurrection through three central motifs—the snake, the deer, and the vulture. The purity of the deer’s likeness is desecrated by the rot and half-death of chronic wasting disease. The snake’s extreme introspection forms an ouroboros of self-destruction. The vulture, faithful in its appetite for death, is a devotee of decomposition.

Anantharaman is also the music director of and a radio host at KUCR 88.3, hosting Unearthly Machine on Thursdays from 7 to 9 pm PST (a radio show featuring a broad range of experimental and global genres), having interviewed numerous musicians and bands, and having been selected as a finalist for the Best Music Director award by the International Student Broadcasting Championship in 2024, and then again, in 2025.

Aside from lyrics, Anantharaman’s prose and poetry have been published in indie literary spaces including ExPat Press and fifth wheel press.

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After releasing an EP in 2018, Anantharaman later reemerged under a new solo project—Planet Bones. Anantharaman’s debut album as Planet Bones, Parasitism, was released in February of 2020.

Anantharaman’s 2023 release, Drones of the Desert, is synesthesia-powered and musically influenced by post-rock, electronic, Carnatic, Hindustani, choral, contemporary classical, shoegaze, and folk music—taking eclectic fragments from each genre and melding them into drone-rich sonic portraits, peppered with samples and anchored by ambience. 2025 marked Anantharaman’s venture into film scores, among other side projects. In I’ll Follow You Into the Dark (Original Score), Anantharaman explores composition in the context of film, bringing ambient house, noise, and drone together and juxtaposing them with Reilly Hutchison’s horror visual storytelling.