This audio montage was created by layering together sounds captured during five days of the Musicians without Borders (MwB) training programme in Derry/Londonderry in April 2017. In condensed form, it gives a ‘feel’ of the training programme, and some key points of the training curriculum are audible in the montage, including improvisation games, the ‘trash orchestra’, and some key guiding comments from trainers and participants. The process of audio editing and production is a subjective one, and condensing dozens of hours of material into a three-minute piece involves a great deal of selection (in this case by researcher Jim Donaghey). However, the montage does effectively get across an essence of the experience of that particular training programme, however subjective, and it was this quality of the audio montage that we explored by using it as part of our research methodologies. The audio montage was played to the participants of the subsequent MwB training programme in Derry in May 2017. This group included several people who had been recorded as part of the audio montage in April 2017 and several who had not been present at the previous training, as well as the MwB trainers. They were played the montage twice, first without any particular guidance, and a second time after a range of key questions and themes had been discussed. The participants and trainers were then invited to discuss their reflections on the montage in sub-divided focus groups, which were recorded and transcribed. This methodology has been useful in encouraging the research participants to think critically and reflectively about sound, and it does so in a way which complements Musicians without Borders’ own training programme. In conjunction with in-depth interviews and participant observation, this approach embeds creative practice and sound into the research process.