Ear to the Earth - A Guide to Artmaking with Sound (250-page book) is an exploration of a bold assertion: that there is a powerful set of fundamental principles available to composers and sonic artists that may be used to effectively manage their creative ideas. Of course this does not mean that the quality of their initial ideas will become higher, only that the ideas they do have might be handled with confidence and effectiveness. The approach is focussed on the awareness and management of several different categories of creative ideas based on known modes of listening and other multimodal attention-based relationships that are brought to bear during the ordinary listening experience. These types include: expressive, abstract, meaningful, structural (with a view to achieving peak musical experiences), visual or quasi-visual, performative, and spatial. The relationships that support these ideas are examined to present a comprehensive and complete model for most forms of applied artmaking within the domain of music and sonic art. The Electroacoustic Music Resources site (EARS) lists ‘81 genres and categories of electroacoustic music’ (Emmerson and Landy 2016).