Hello, I'm Sara McCarthy. 

Places talk to me. I've always loved to play. 

I am a musician with a passion for listening to places. I have a sensitivity to geographical location and a training in receptivity. 

As a musician, I'm able to hear different strands of history in a particular place. Of all the layers of the past that occur in one place, there are certain strata that vibrate more strongly to my ears. 

History may linger in an atmosphere and be felt in contemporary time. Such timelines interest me creatively. Often working where traumatic events have occurred, how a specific historical event impacts a place, intrigues me.

My curiosity has led to musical projects based on history and place. Sounding Cov was a 4 year project based on 14 November 1940 and its impact on Coventry in England. Maamtrasna Blues is an album of Irish blues, based on the 1840s Irish Famine, ancestry and its impact on Maamtrasna in the West of Ireland. I am currently producing Rievaulx, an EP focused on the 12th Century in Rievaulx, North Yorkshire.

Landscapes make us feel. Places can bring us to life.  We can become more finely tuned to this, through the use of sound. The more porous we become, the greater our ability to be human.