Ear to the Earth is an ethos embodying a creative approach to artmaking that places the recognition and application of principles and patterns drawn from nature at its core. The endpoint of the method allows an understanding of sound in all its communicative facets alongside the creation of music and sonic art that display similar characteristics to other natural objects - qualities such as: aesthetic beauty, complex internal relationships reflecting balance and equilibrium, and plausible/convincing features relating to the nature of being.