“Sound Arts” never seemed an all that concrete/fixed term to me. From what I can understand, the field is a group of artists, scientists, and researchers who found safety and commonality in an umbrella term that serves only as a general form of classification for what they do. I find that the term “Sound Arts” by those in the field is fragile and ever-changing, some “Sound-Artists” even reject the term completely. However, sound art to me is simply extending our exploration of sound and aurality beyond the demands and structures of the scientific method. While the foundation of our inquiry may be established/tested theory and institutional knowledge, the abstract psychological, spiritual, and poetic/synthesized expression of our exploration is needed to account for the individual/personal/subjective space that sound exists in. Thus, my own interest in the field comes from what I felt were my limitations as an artist and musician. Being a self-taught and often labeled “experimental” artist who grew up displaced from my own culture meant that my use of sound has always been wild, brash, and possibly a little ignorant. I have continued to try and bend sound to my will in order to match the emotional and imaginative resonance that exists in my internal world. However, in order to continue to break the rules and create new work I believe I need to now know what the rules are, even if they are transitory and undefined. In that way maybe I am much like other’s in the sound arts field. It is not that I desire to be a sound artist, it is simply a term that functions for society and allows me to have some grounding in this world while I explore something deeply personal/spiritual in the only way I know how.