This article discusses making Within History , an artwork that translates a commentary on historically situated perceiving from the visual realm to the sonic.

ABSTRACT In this article, the author describes an approach to structuring sonic art as a critique of listening and as stimulus for critical reflection on listening, which was devised for the project Listening Art: Making Sonic Artworks that Critique Listening . Presented are an overview of the project’s methodology—integrating schema theory, immanent critique and heuristic research methods into the creative process—and discussion of two artworks and findings.