• This is a book that demonstrates what types of musical and extramusical elements listeners can hold on to when experiencing sound-based music live and in mediated formats. • This book investigates an extremely wide diversity of sound-based works ranging from sonic objects to installations, performed works and immersive audio-visual works on fixed media. • The book addresses a broad audience ranging from people with no prior experience in sonic creativity to students and professional artists and scholars with all media examples freely available on the book’s website. • This is the first book in the field to focus on the advantages of experiencing sound-based music in situ, that is, in spaces where the works are meant to be heard.