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Oblique Strategies: ideas for creative lateral thinking
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# Oblique Strategies: ideas for creative lateral thinking



Oblique Strategies is a list of ideas to help break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking.



* 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 judgement



* 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, centre 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 centre



* 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 (example: a man eating peas with the idea that they will improve his virility shovels them straight into his lap)



* 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



* [blank white card]



Credit:



* Created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt; first published in 1975.



* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies



* https://carinelallemand.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/enoobliqstrat1.pdf



* http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/obliques.html



* https://joeribollaerts.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/brianeno_obliquestrategies1.pdf