Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Jelaluddin Rumi

Oonagh is inspired by listening to the language and music of the natural world, creating music, sound and video works to deepen understanding, reciprocity and connection among people and place.

She is especially drawn to waterways : as pathways across time, holders of memories and stories and habitat for many forms of life.

Her work spans music composition, sound design, audio production, video installation, community arts event facilitation, and music education.

“The sound of the songspirals is the sound of the universe. We are in harmony with it, and by singing we sing our connections…The world sings all the time. We sing and the clouds sing. The planets sing, the rain sings, the birds, the plants, the rocks, the tides sing, and we sing the world. The fish, animals and different beings, they sing in different ways, at different frequencies. Some songs take a long time. The world is alive with their sound. The world is their sound, and ours. This is the music of nature. Many people have forgotten how to listen.”

Gay’wu Group of Women, “Song Spirals”

“if we ponder the activity of any individual human at this very moment, we’ll notice that he or she or they are breathing (or struggling to breathe)—each of us drinking this unseen elixir that’s granted to us, ceaselessly—by the innumerable rooted, leafing, needled, stemmed, trunked, or algal beings that are also breathing in our vicinity. We have no autonomy, no integrity as a species separate from the other species of this world, no collective existence as a creature apart from the animate Earth.”

David Abram, “In the Ground of Our Unknowing”