Oblique Strategies
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- Abandon normal instruments
- Accept advice
- Accretion
- A line has two sides
- Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)
- Are there sections? Consider transitions
- Ask people to work against their better judgment
- Ask your body
- Assemble some of the instruments in a group and treat the group
- Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle
- Be dirty
- Breathe more deeply
- Bridges -build -burn
- Cascades
- Change instrument roles
- Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency
- Children's voices -speaking -singing
- Cluster analysis
- Consider different fading systems
- 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 -the most important thing
- Discard an axiom
- Disconnect from desire
- Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them
- Distorting time
- Do nothing for as long as possible
- 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
- Do something boring
- Do the washing up
- Do the words need changing?
- Do we need holes?
- Emphasize differences
- Emphasize repetitions
- Emphasize the flaws
- Faced with a choice, do both (given by Dieter Roth)
- Feedback recordings into an acoustic situation
- Fill every beat with something
- Get your neck massaged
- Ghost echoes
- Give the game away
- Give way to your worst impulse
- Go slowly all the way round the outside
- Honor thy error as a hidden intention
- How would you have done it?
- Humanize something free of error
- Imagine the music as a moving chain or caterpillar
- Imagine the music as a set of disconnected events
- Infinitesimal gradations
- Intentions -credibility of -nobility of -humility of
- Into the impossible
- Is it finished?
- Is there something missing?
- Is the tuning appropriate?
- Just carry on
- Left channel, right channel, center channel
- Listen in total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly
- Listen to the quiet voice
- Look at a very small object; look at its center
- Look at the order in which you do things
- Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them
- Lowest common denominator check -single beat -single note -single
- riff
- Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame
- Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last
- thing on the list
- Make a sudden, destructive, unpredictable action; incorporate
- Mechanicalize something idiosyncratic
- Mute and continue
- Only one element of each kind
- (Organic) machinery
- Overtly resist change
- Put in earplugs
- Remember those quiet evenings
- Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics
- Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities
- Repetition is a form of change
- Reverse
- Short circuit
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- Shut the door and listen from outside
- Simple subtraction
- Spectrum analysis
- Take a break
- Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance
- Tape your mouth (given by Ritva Saarikko)
- The inconsistency principle
- The tape is now the music
- Think of the radio
- Tidy up
- Trust in the you of now
- Turn it upside down
- Twist the spine
- Use an old idea
- Use an unacceptable color
- Use fewer notes
- Use filters
- Use "unqualified" people
- Water
- What are you really thinking about just now? Incorporate
- What is the reality of the situation?
- What mistakes did you make last time?
- What would your closest friend do?
- What wouldn't you do?
- Work at a different speed
- 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