To advance the efficiency and effectiveness of inter-disciplinary research, and to obtainvalid strategies for inter-disciplinary projects, there is a need to define inter-disciplinary researchapproaches explicitly. The current study aims generally to further the understanding of inter-disciplinary ways of conducting research, and specifically to describe and explore the challenges andopportunities that characterize research projects which move across borders of different researchareas as well as the various disciplinary homes of the collaborating researchers in a recentlyperformed project focusing on Bildung and streamed art. Written reflections from the six participantsin the project, representing the disciplines of music education, musicology, education, Englishliterature, sound engineering as well as media and technology science was analyzed and interpreted inrelation to Alfred Schütz’ theory of phenomenological sociology. The results are presented through sixthemes, which together fulfill the aim of the study; (i) Crossed borders, perspectives, and contexts, (ii)Common concepts, definitions, and reconstructions, (iii) Status of theory and explorative freedom, (iv)State of the art and innovative potential, (v) Scientific identity and positioning work (vi) Place, activity,and performance.