The Ecology of Sound - Escala de Grisos /  by Orla Wren

Thanks very much to @escala_de_grisos for the lovely review of my album The Intimate Overlap.

“Every sound, no matter how faint, is treated as essential. This is what gives the album its strange intimacy: the sense that everything we hear is happening not in front of us, but with us, at the same molecular level.”

Thanks again to @norihiko_terayama for his beautiful works on the albums layout 💐

Full review is here, thank you ☺️
https://escaladegrisos.substack.com/p/the-ecology-of-sound

 

Review by Stephen Spera - LOOP /  by Orla Wren

A really lovely review for LOOP Music Magazine in Chile by Stephen Spera for my new album’s The Intimate Overlap and Poiesis which also joins some dots and covers the ground throughout my career and back to my debut album Butterfly Wings Make which was released on the London label Expanding Records in 2006.

Link to the full review is here.

Thanks to Steph and to Guillermo Escudero.

 

Sine Waves On Sunday - VOICE.FM. /  by Orla Wren

Thanks very much to Max @realmcorp for including my track Convergence from Poiesis today on his great show Sine Waves On Sunday for @voicefmradio in Southampton, UK.
It’s available to ‘listen again’ here.

Voice FM goes on a trip through the weird and wonderful world of electronic music.
‘Sine Waves On Sunday’ is a music show dedicated to perhaps the most important musical genre of the last century - stunning new worlds of sound that have altered our perceptions of music forever.
In the 50s and 60s, it was strange, ethereal radiophonic noises, oscillators, tape manipulation, mystique concrete, alien ambient drones. Delia Derbyshire, Stockhausen, etc.

Max Williams studied Music at the University of Southampton whilst joining Voice FM Radio in 2022.
Since then he has hosted ‘Sine Waves On Sunday’, a weekly music show inspired by his enthusiasm for weird bleepy bloopy noises.
He also makes his own electronic music as ‘M-Corp’ and ‘Samuel Dross’.

 

Listening Pearls - CAMP Radio /  by Orla Wren

Thanks very much to @jeffdungfelder for playing tracks from both The Intimate Overlap and Poiesis on his LISTENING PEARLS RADIO SHOW.

Listening Pearls is a monthly radio show, broadcasting direct from the revolutionary arts facility high in the French Pyrenees.
Featuring new and upcoming ambient, electronic, experimental, modern classical and minimal music releases.

FEATURING: Dao Strom / Kara-Lis Coverdale / Jakob Bro and Midori Takada / F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm / Savvas Metaxas / maeri / Orphax & Kenneth Kirschner / Lawrence English / Slowly Observed Horizons / The Green Kingdom / Benny Nilsen / Hellbach / SLau Nau, Sontag Shogun / Roméo Poirier / Cities and Memory / Carlos Ferreira / Ümlaut / Ard Bit / Midori Hirano, CoH / Aiko Takahashi / Paul Beaudoin / Plod / o[rlawren] / Pcc / SPRO / Kommune

https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/listening-pearls-12th-october-2025/

LIVE on CAMP Radio - Every Four Weeks: Sunday 5 am L.A. / 8 am New York / 1 pm UK / 2 pm CEST France / 9 pm Tokyo / 12am Melbourne AUS

 

Turtles Have Short Legs - XRAYFM /  by Orla Wren

Very pleased to have the title track Poiesis from my album Poiesis (Dronarivm/Fonodroom) included in another great mix on the show with the best name ever.

Turtles Have Short Legs by DJ Gilliflower is an intoxicating mix of psychedelic and experimental sounds, both new & old: Expect krautrock/kosmische nuggets, modal acid folk & weirdlore, hauntological delights, pop-sike pipedreams, radiophonics & analog electronics, surreal sound collages/drones, spiritual jazz, progressive/avant-rock oddities, & unusual international music of all stripes.

All shows are streamable over on the XRAYFM site ... Thank you Nancy @gilliflower :)
https://xray.fm/broadcasts/66408

 

Between Two Points - Richard Chartier /  by Orla Wren

Many thanks to @richardchartiersound for including my track Corpuscles from my album Poiesis
in the September edition of his show Between Two Points over on Dublab.

The show explores textures, tones, place, and space, featuring selections of experimental electronic, avant-garde,
ambient works from the mid-20th century through to our current time.

It’s a great show, very happy to have been included 😊

www.dublab.com/archive/richard-chartier-between-two-points-09-23-25

 
 

The Lake Radio /  by Orla Wren

I’m really pleased that my track The Penumbra and the Gradients from Poiesis will be included in the
New Drops show with @thelakeradio today at 10.00 CET and will then be added to their rotation pool.
It’s a really great station, thanks to Frederik for listening.

www.thelakeradio.com

 
 

BBC Radio 3 Unclassified /  by Orla Wren

It was so nice to hear my track Physis from my new album Poiesis played on the lovely BBC Radio 3
Unclassified show 'Dissolving Patterns' with Elizabeth Alker.

Thanks to Elizabeth for listening to my music and for the nice communications about it 😊
It's available to stream now.

 
 

Textura /  by Orla Wren

Up now on the lovely Textura site is one track from each of the my new albums The Intimate Overlap and Poiesis.
They were one of the first people to ever review me back in 2006.
Lovely to be included here, thank you to Ron Schepper.

 

Poiesis /  by Orla Wren

The second of two simultaneous album releases, Poiesis is now available through Dronarivm with distribution through Fonodroom in the Netherlands.
Pre-order is now available for physical and digital copies … dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/poiesis

Photography by Carina Martins _ carinamartins.com
Words by Rui Ibañez Matoso.

Thanks you for listening x

 

‘Extending a valuable collaborative aesthetic, Poiesis is a continuation in the artists ongoing research into modular synthesis and field recordings, informed by and in collaboration with the works ‘we wander in circles through the night and are consumed by fire’ and ‘physis’ by Portuguese photographer Carina Martins and the author Rui Ibañez Matoso’.

 
 

The Intimate Overlap /  by Orla Wren

The first of two simultaneous album releases, The Intimate Overlap is now available through Dronarivm with distribution through Fonodroom in the Netherlands.
Pre-order is now available for physical and digital copies … dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/the-intimate-overlap

Sculptures and Photography by Norihiko Terayama _ studio-note.com

Thank you for listening x

 

‘Working with field recordings, acousmatic and modular synthesis techniques, The Intimate Overlap is presented in a suite of two parts ‘a structure in naming’ and ‘a nearness to the world’ over four longform pieces covering the album’s 73 minute running time.

Created over a nine year period as a delicate micro-drama of shifting proximities, each holding onto their roots, folding, seeking nutrients, learning and unlearning.

An ecological relationship with micro sounds that are at once ecstatic, animated, tentative and visceral.

A neurodivergent yearning for new ways to connect, articulate and circulate.

An ecology of the senses in a music used as language’.

 
 

Norihiko Terayama _ studio-note. /  by Orla Wren

I'm really very happy to announce that I'm working on something with the Japanese designer and artist Norihiko Terayama (studio-note).
I really love his work.

More great news very soon.

 

Filmscores Volume Eleven /  by Orla Wren

 

The newest mix in my Filmscores series, Volume Eleven is now online
with my friends in Ireland thirtythree-45.

Each time I do one of these it’s always inspired by one film in particular that really moved me.
This time it was two, Touch Me Not by Adina Pantilie and Softie by Samuel Theis.

Intimacy, always.

‘Music for the quiet dark nights, solemn yet life affirming.
Headphones on and lights out.’
Brian Hegarty - thirtythree-45

Filmscores Volume Ten /  by Orla Wren

 


Filmscores Volume Ten is the newest mix in my Filmscores series, now kindly hosted by my friends in Ireland thirtythree-45.

‘thirtythree-45’ has long admired the work of Scottish musician sound artist ‘Orla Wren’ so it is a great pleasure to host his newest work Filmscore 10. Beautifully crafted, sublime and emotional, put the headphones on, lights out and settle back' .
Brian Hegarty, thirtythree-45.

Culture Night /  by Orla Wren

 


I was very happy to be invited recently to show some of the wonderful films that have been made for my music over the years at the Culture Night Film and Music Trail by Droichead Arts Centre.
Each film was an installation within an abandoned shop front in the town of Drogheda, Ireland on loop twenty four hours a day for a week.

A Woven Rope Of Woven Hope 
Rooted in friendship and common creative fields, A Woven Rope Of Woven Hope is an audiovisual exhibition and installation from sound artist Orla Wren, filmmakers Robert Shaw (Lumacell), Joey Bania and Haruhisa Ueda (Film Sessions).
The Words Under The Wood, Five Acre Ladder, Move Learn Drink Water, Four Feathers Few and A Woven Rope Of Woven Hope by Orla Wren are all rendered beautifully within the hypnotic cinematography of Lumacell, Joey Bania and Haruhisa Ueda.
Filmic incantations full of ecstatic beauty and optimism.
Documents of experience and affirmations on what it is to be human.
Brian Hegarty (thirtythree-45)