Fields' musical education was haphazard, to say the least. In a case of the blind leading the blind, at first he taught himself guitar. Later he was introduced to music theory in ad hoc study groups, attended theory and compositions courses at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and tested the patience of a half-dozen or so private guitar teachers. As a composer he first wrote simple folk songs (this is age 12 stuff), then rock songs, then parodies of rock songs (these reflected his self-loathing of his insistence on continuing to perform as a rock guitarist just for the attention), then jazz head tunes, all of which led to his current mish-mash of material that, although he has scant interest in taxonomy, could be fairly called New Music or Avant-Jazz. Morphology has been his primary compositional interest in recent times, especially in how improvisational and compositional shapes fit together. In years past, through various pleading strategies, he has persuaded a remarkably diverse and skilled gang of musicians to participate in his amorphous ensemble. This wide-ranging posse feeds smaller groupings, from duos (or, if you want to get silly about it, Fields solo) to improvising chamber orchestras. Fields also jumps at the chance to work as a hired hand in the ensembles of other musicians.

Discography
As leader
SCOTT FIELDS ENSEMBLE

• "Running with Scissors" (Geode, now 482 Music)
• "Fugu" (Geode, now 482 Music)
• "48 Motives" (Cadence)
• "Disaster at Sea" (Music&Arts)
• "Five Frozen Eggs" (Music&Arts)
• "Sonotropism" (Music&Arts)
• "Dénouement" (Geode, now 482 Music)
• "96 Gestures" (CRI, now 482 Music) triple CD
• "Mamet" (Delmark)
• "this that "(Accretions)
• "15=15 Plunderplunderfonics" (Theode)
• "From the Diary of Dog Drexel" (Rossbin)
• "christangelfox" (482 Music)
• "Beckett" (Clean Feed Records)
• "We Were the Phliks" (Rogue Art Records)

JEFF PARKER AND SCOTT FIELDS "Song Songs Song" (Delmark)
FIELDS-HOULE-ROEBKE "Hornets Collage" (Nuscope)

As sideman
HEINZ GEISSER-GUERINO MAZZOLA QUARTET

• "Maze" (Quixotic)
• "Heliopolis" (Cadence)
• "Chronotomy" (Black Saint)
  

SCATTERSHOT "Extrasexual Behavior" (one track) (Scattershot)
BILL O'BRIEN "Cool at the Union" (two tracks) (Raven Records)

Compilations
DELUXE IMPROVISATION SERIES, VOLUME 2 (one track: "untitled improvised duet" with Yoshiko Kanda - percussion)
LIVE AT EYEDRUM (one track: Fields-Houle-Roebke "The Instruments of Darkness")
GATHERING (one track: Scott Fields Ensemble "Contemporary Raga Number Nine")

Scott Fields Ensemble "From the Diary of Dog Drexel"

Carrie Biolo - Vibraphon, Marimba, Crotales, ungestimmte Percussion; Kyle Bruckmann - Oboe, English horn; Guillermo Gregorio - Altsaxophon, Klarinette; Greg Kelley - Trompete; Scott Fields - Elektrogitarre, Nylon-string Gitarre; Stephen Dembski - Dirigat (Titel 1-4); Gregory Taylor - Constructor (Titel 5)

Tracks: Conflicted - Pissed - Bummed - Agitated - Medicated