Ear to the Earth - A Guide to Artmaking with Sound (280-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. This does not mean that the quality of their initial ideas will increase, but it does mean that the ideas they do have might be brought to their full potential with precision and confidence. The approach is focussed on the awareness and management of several different categories of creative ideas based on known modes of listening and other multisensory attention-based relationships that are brought to bear during the ordinary listening experience. These include: expressive, abstract musical, meaningful, visual (or quasi-visual), performative, spatial, and structural ideas. Relationships that support these ideas are examined with reference to expert sources to present a comprehensive and complete model specifying a variety of methods for applied artmaking within the domain of music and sonic art.