Orla Wren is Tui.
He makes electroacoustic music that uses the emotional space
between organic acoustic sounds and digital processing.
Combining the oldest, wonkiest and most organic of possible sound sources,
he fashions them into melodies and textures of pinprick detail,
revealing the antiquated isolation of the environments that have inspired them
and rendering the minutiae of nature into sonic form.
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He has performed live around the world and played at events with people such as
Herman Kolgen and Olivier Girouard/Urban9 ( Musique DImpressions - Montreal )
Murcof and Bernt Friedman ( ISI Festival - Montpellier, France )
Serafina Steer ( The Fenaille Museum - Rodez, France )
aus, Isnaj Dui, The Boats and Laptop & Cello ( Off Key Sessions - Bristol, UK )
offthesky, Isnaj Dui, Kinder Scout, Astrid ( HomeNormalism - Cafe Oto - London UK )
He has released music on many labels since 2006, namely ...
Expanding Records ( UK ) Flau Records ( Japan )
Arbouse Recordings ( France ) Air Texture ( US )
Murmur records ( Japan ) Facture ( UK ) and Home Normal ( UK/Japan ).
Since 2006 Orla Wren has slowly become a loose collective of talented musicians
and film makers that Tui can draw upon for collaboration.
A part of the family are ...
Aaron Martin, Keiron Phelan, Lori Scacco, Eva Puyuelo, Katie English, Paddy Mann, Heidi Elva,
Hinny Pawsey, Frederic Oberland, Cyril Secq, Barry Leake, Phil White,
Jessica Constable, Russudan Meipariani, Joanna Joachim, Danny Norbury,
Robert Shaw ( Lumacell ), Joey Bania, Mark Kuykendall ( The New Honey Shade ),
Elise Baldwin and Tippi Tillvind.
Tui is also a member of the electroacoustic collective Exquisite What
along with Barbara De Dominicis, Isnaj Dui, Flotel, Allesio Ballerini.
Frederic Oberland, Peak, Enrico Coniglio, Olivier Girouard and many more.
And he is also one half of the electroacoustic duo Bamboo Stilts with Leigh Toro.
Their debut album Beneath The Bark is released soon.
Some lovely people have said some lovely things about Orla Wren ...
"The delicate world of Orla Wren" - Verity Sharp|BBC Radio 3|LATE JUNCTION
"An electroacoustic nomad" - Max Reinhardt|BBC Radio 3|LATE JUNCTION
“Achingly beautiful” - BOOMKAT
“The droning and wheeling of summer insect life” - David Stubbs|THE WIRE
“I imagined gently rocking in an old wooden chair, in a shack in the forest,
completely impervious to the constraints of time” - Danny Turner|FUTURE MUSIC
"Orla Wren was at times playing music of such graceful and restrained beauty
that time seemed suspended to allow the audience to observe the life of a
microscopic ecosystem ebbing and flowing in slow motion" - Pascal Savy|FLUID RADIO
“The music of this artist is as endearing as himself, offering a shy and sweet sensibility.
We are invited to fly over pictures (his or ours)
of the most charming moments captured at other parts of the world.
That’s the beauty of tiny things that gives a meaning to life here:
when a bee comes in your ear to awake you, the feeling of a sunny day on the skin,
fresh grass between the toes or a child’s laugh floating in the air.
The work of Orla Wren is highly comforting, with a respectful care to details
from nature and childhood, or time stopping.
As sound flies by the studio, we can feel a friendly hand caressing our neck
while repeating everything’s going to be okay.
Tui reveals those magic instants to others while preserving their fragility
and their innocence, their intensity and plainness” - Marion Gerbier|VOIR.CA
“Beautiful and moving” - Aurelio Cianciotta - NEURAL|IT
“A moonlit night, a little girl, hidden in her room, decided to make music.
Something a little fabulous, with creatures that one tames,
in a voice both magician and disturbing.
So that Orla Wren composes his pieces,
as we invent stories to sleep” - DELICIOUS|SCOPITONE
“Orla Wren, as you say, makes a beautiful sound at midnight”. - YU|CA
