Oblique Strategies (Condensed)\\Over a hundred worthwhile dilemmas\\\Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt\1975-2001
system
(Organic) machinery
(Overtly)\resist change + (secretly)\allow it through\a back door
1. Shut the door and listen from outside\2. put in earplugs\\\\
A line has two sides
A very small object\- Its centre
Abandon desire
Abandon\normal\instruments
Accept advice
Accretion
Adding on
Allow an easement\(an easement is the abandonment\of a stricture)
Always first steps
Always give yourself credit for having more than personality\\(given by Arto Lindsay)\\
Analyze\colour changes\and grading
Are there sections?\Consider transitions
Ask people to work\against their better judgement
Ask your body
Assemble some\of the instruments\into a group and\treat the group
Balance the consistency principle\with the inconsistency principle
Be dirty
Be extravagant
Be less critical
Body-percussion
Breathe more deeply
Bridges\- build\- burn
Cascades
Change ambiguities to specifics
Change instrument roles
Change nothing and continue\with immaculate consistency
Change specifics to ambiguities
Change the lyrics\if necessary
Check\timing
Children\- speaking\- singing
Cluster analysis
Consider different fading systems
Consider transitions
Consult other sources\- promising\- unpromising
Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element
Courage!
Cut a vital connection
Decorate, decorate
Define an area as 'safe'\and use it as an anchor
Destroy nothing;\Destroy the most important thing
Destroy\- nothing\- the most important thing\- everything
Discard an axiom
Disciplined self-indulgence
Disconnect from desire
Discover your formulas\and abandon them
Display your talent
Distort time
Do nothing\for as long as possible
Do something boring
Do something sudden,\destructive and unpredictable
Do the last thing first
Do the washing up
Do the words need changing?
Do we need\holes?
Don't avoid what is easy
Don't be afraid of things\because they're easy to do
Don't be frightened\of cliches
Don't be frightened\to display your\talents
Don't break the silence
Don't stress one thing\more than another
Emphasise differences
Emphasise repetitions
Emphasise the flaws
Faced with a choice, do both\\\(from Dieter Rot)\
Feed the recording back out of the medium
Feedback\recordings into\an acoustic\situation
Fill every\beat with\something
Find a safe part and use it as an anchor
From nothing to more than nothing
Gardening, not architecture
Get your neck massaged
Ghost echoes
Give the game away
Give way to your worst impulse
Go outside.\Shut the door
Go slowly all the way round the outside
Go to an extreme,\move back to a more comfortable place
Honour thy\error as a\hidden intention
How would someone else do it?
How would you have done it?
Humanise something free of error
hydrophonic\    - sources\    - treatments
Idiot glee (?)
If a thing\can be said,\it can be\said simply
Imagine the piece as a set of disconnected events
Imagine the\music as a\moving chain\or caterpillar
In total darkness\or in a very large room,\very quietly
Infinitesimal gradations
Intentions\- nobility of\- humility of\- credibility of
Into the impossible
Is it finished?
Is the intonation correct?
Is the style right?
Is there something missing?
It is quite possible (after all)
It is simply a matter or work
Just carry on
Left channel,\right channel,\centre channel
Listen in total\darkness or in\a large empty room\very quietly
Listen to the quiet voice
Look at the order\in which you do things
Look closely\at the most embarrassing details\and amplify them
Lost in useless territory
Lowest common denominator
Magnify the most difficult details
Maintain a\graphic balance
Make a blank valuable\by putting it in an exquisite frame
Make a sudden, destructive\unpredictable action; incorporate
Make an exhaustive list\of everything you might do\and do the last thing on the list
Make it more sensual
Make something implied\more definite (reinforce, duplicate)
Make what's perfect more human
Mechanicalise something idiosyncratic
Move towards the unimportant
Mute and continue
Not building a wall\but making a brick
Once the search is in progress,\something will be found
Only a part, not the whole
Only one element of each kind
Openly resist change
Overlay\Harmony\Cascades\Descending and\Rising over\consecuive octaves
Overtly resist change
Pae White's non-blank graphic metacard
Plot a graph of the piece
Put in earplugs
Question the heroic approach
Question the heroic
Remember\those quiet evenings
Remove a restriction
Remove ambiguities\and convert to specifics
Remove specifics\and convert to ambiguities
Repetition\is a form of change
Retrace your steps
Revaluation (a warm feeling)
Reverse all and listen closely
Reverse
Short circuit\\(example; a man eating peas\with the idea that they will\improve his virility shovels them\straight into his lap)\\
simple\subtraction
Simply a matter of work
Simultaneous\melodies\at different\speeds, in time
Slow preparation.\Fast execution
Spectrum analysis
Split signal via\filter with\different bands\on different tracks
Spread single\echoes over tracks,\such that track to\track delay =, say,\1/2 beat. also\pre-echoes
State the problem in words\as clearly as possible
Take a break
Take away the elements\in order of apparent non importance
Take away the important parts
Tape your mouth\\\(given by Ritva Saarikko)\
The inconsistency principle
The most easily forgotten thing\is the most important
The most important thing is\the thing most easily forgotten
The tape is now the music
Think of\the radio
Think\- inside the work\- outside the work
Tidy up
Towards the insignificant
Trust in the you of now
Try faking it\\\(given by Stewart Brand)\
Turn it upside down
Twist the spine
Use 'unqualified' people
Use an old idea
Use an unacceptable colour
Use cliches
Use fewer notes
Use filters
Use something nearby as a model
Use your own ideas
Use\non-musicians
Voice nagging suspicions
Water
What are the sections sections of?\Imagine a caterpillar moving
What are you really\thinking about just now?\Incorporate
What context would look right?
What is the reality of the situation?
What is the simplest solution?
What mistakes did you make last time?
What to increase?\What to reduce?
What to maintain?
What would your closest friend do?
What wouldn't you do?
What\goes on?
When is it for?
Where's the edge?\Where does the frame start?
Which elements can be grouped?
Which frame would make this look right?
Which parts can be grouped?
Who should be doing this job?\How would they do it?
Work at a different speed
Would anybody want it?
Wow and/or\flutter
You are an engineer
You can only make one dot at a time
You don't have to be ashamed\of using your own ideas
Your mistake was a hidden intention
