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OBLIQUE STRATEGIES by BRIAN ENO and PETER SCHMIDT, 1979
Children -speaking -singing
How would you have done it?
From nothing to more than nothing
What would your closest friend do?
Bridges -build -burn
Don't be frightened of clich'es
Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them
Remove ambiquities and convert to specifics
Intentions -nobility of -humility of -credibility of
Be dirty
Make a list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list
Is there something missing?
Ask your body
Idiot glee (?)
Be less critical more often
Lost in useless territory
Abandon normal instruments
Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place
Short circuit
A line has two sides
Simply a matter of work
Lowest common denominator
Is it finished?
It is quite possible (after all)
Use filters
Trust in the you of now
Look at the order in which you do things
Decorate, decorate
Mute and continue
Humanize something free of error
Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)
Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group
Honour thy error as a hidden intention
Use fewer notes
You are an engineer
Fill every beat with something
Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame
(Organic) machinery
Do the words need changing?
Courage!
Discard an axiom
Infinitesimal gradations
Use an old idea
Consider different fading systems
Define an area a 'safe' and use it as an anchor
Question the heroic approach
Go slowly all the way round the outside
Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do
The tape is now the music
Mechanicalize something idiosyncratic
Imagine the piece as a set of disconnected events
Destroy -nothing -the most important thing
Only one element of each kind
Think of the radio
Disciplined self-indulgence
Overtly resist change
Is the intonation correct?
Just carry on
Water
Take a break
State the problem in words as clearly as possible
Ghost echoes
The inconsistency principle
What wouldn't you do?
Emphasize differences
Distorting time
Always first steps
Emphasize the flaws
Give the game away
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten
Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities
Accretion
What are you relly thinking about just now?
Don't be frightened to display your talents
Simple subtraction
Turn it upside down
Cluster analysis
Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate
Give way to your worst impulse
Emphasize repetitions
Ask people to work against their better judgement
Go outside. Shut the door
What is the reality of the situation?
Are there sections? Consider transitions
Reverse
Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them
Accept advice
Do we need holes?
Retrace your steps
Repitition is a form of change
Do nothing for as long as possible
Don't break the silence
Listen to the quite voice
Breathe more deeply
(the blank page)
Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency
Cascades
Don't stress one thing more than another
Would anybody want it?
Tidy up
Be extravagant
Only a part, not the whole
Remember. those quiet evenings
Work at a different speed
You can only make one dot at a time
Into the impossible
Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle
Change instrument role
Towards the insignificant
Once the search is in progress, something will be found
What mistakes did you make last time?
Disconnect from desire
Cut a vital connection
Do something boring
What are the sections sections of? Imagine a caterpillar moving
Not building a wall but making a brick
Use 'unqualified' people
Use an unacceptable colour
Consult other sources -promising -unpromising
Revaluation (a warm feeling)
You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas