An audio accompaniment to remembrance and reflection

The Circle of Life Garden is Ireland's national organ donor commemorative garden. Located on Salthill seafront in Galway, it is a really special place, with a sense of loving calm that pervades all the many carved stones, and beautiful plants, trees, water features and paths.

It's also a place with an important purpose, so I was absolutely honoured to be asked by Martina and Denis of Strange Boat Donor Foundation to create a site-specific audio piece for the garden.

We worked together on scripting their narration, which doesn’t aim to be a guided tour, but more to tell the garden’s story while complementing the reflective atmosphere there.

It also features contributions from an organ donation nurse manager and a volunteer gardener, as well as the locally recorded soundscape, and music from the Waterboys, Eleanor Shanley and friends, and Charlie Lennon.

If you've never paid a visit to this unique public garden, you now have another reason to go. Take your smartphone and earbuds down to Salthill one day and check it out – simply scan the QR code at either of the entrances, carved into limestone by Réamonn Flaherty.