We tackle the creative development of a soundtrack for a video-dance artwork entitled​ Atravessamentos​. Our exposition follows two strands: 1) The processes of creative sharing-involving the production of a collaborative artistic work; 2) The development of a multimodal artistic proposal through the application of an ecologically grounded approach. An overview of ecologically grounded creative practices serves to set the context for a discussion of the artistic strategies employed in this project. The contributions include: an expanded notion of​ shifting​, incorporating the concept of​ cognitively dissonant strategies and the introduction of​ acoustic-instrumental synthesis as an ecologically grounded technique. We discuss the implications of the application of these strategies within the context of current creative practices in ubiquitous music.