best oblique strategy

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OptionVotes
Your mistake was a hidden intention2
Do nothing for as long as possible 1
Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group 1
Short circuit (example; a man eating peas with the idea that they will improve his virility shovels them straight into h1
Be dirty 1
Disconnect from desire 1
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten 1
Try faking it 1
Define an area as `safe' and use it as an anchor 1
Where is the edge? 1
Do we need holes? 1
You are an engineer 1
A line has two sides 1
Take away the important parts 1
Repetition is a form of change 0
Remove the middle, extend the edges 0
Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities 0
Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics 0
Remove a restriction 0
Remember those quiet evenings 0
Retrace your steps 0
Steal a solution. 0
Slow preparation, fast execution 0
State the problem in words as simply as possible 0
Reverse 0
Spectrum analysis 0
Shut the door and listen from outside 0
Simple subtraction 0
Simply a matter of work 0
Revaluation (a warm feeling) 0
Question the heroic approach 0
Put in earplugs 0
Picture of a man spotlighted 0
Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate 0
Make a blank valuable by putting it in an excquisite frame 0
Magnify the most difficult details 0
Lowest common denominator check -single beat -single note -single riff 0
Lost in useless territory 0
Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify. 0
Look at the order in which you do things 0
Look at a very small object, look at its centre 0
Listen to the quiet voice 0
Listen in total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly 0
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list 0
Make it more sensual 0
Make what's perfect more human 0
Pay attention to distractions 0
Pae White's non-blank graphic metacard 0
Overtly resist change 0
Only one element of each kind 0
Only a part, not the whole 0
Once the search has begun, something will be found 0
Not building a wall but making a brick 0
Mute and continue 0
Move towards the unimportant 0
Mechanize something idiosyncratic 0
List the qualities it has. List those you'd like. 0
Take away as much mystery as possible. What is left? 0
What were the branch points in the evolution of this entity 0
What to increase? What to reduce? What to maintain? 0
What most recently impressed you? How is it similar? What can you learn from it? What could you take from it? 0
What mistakes did you make last time? 0
What is the simplest solution? 0
What is the reality of the situation? 0
What else is this like? 0
What do you do? Now, what do you do best? 0
What context would look right? 0
What were you really thinking about just now? Incorporate 0
What would make this really successful? 0
You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas 0
You can only make one dot at a time 0
Would anyone want it? 0
Work at a different speed 0
Who would make this really successful? 0
Which parts can be grouped? 0
When is it for? Who is it for? 0
What wouldn't you do? 0
What would your closest friend do? 0
What are the sections sections of? Imagine a caterpillar moving 0
Water 0
Trust in the you of now 0
Towards the insignificant 0
Tidy up 0
Think of the radio 0
Think - inside the work -outside the work 0
The tape is now the music 0
The inconsistency principle 0
Tape your mouth 0
Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance 0
Turn it upside down 0
Twist the spine 0
Voice your suspicions 0
Use your own ideas 0
Use something nearby as a model 0
Use filters 0
Use fewer notes 0
Use cliches 0
Use an unacceptable color 0
Use an old idea 0
Use "unqualified" people. 0
Take a break 0
Do the washing up 0
Decorate, decorate 0
Cut a vital connection 0
Courage! 0
Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element 0
Consult other sources -promising -unpromising 0
Consider transitions 0
Consider different fading systems 0
Cluster analysis 0
Children's voices -speaking -singing 0
Describe the landscape in which this belongs. (9 August) 0
Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing 0
Discard an axiom 0
Do the last thing first 0
Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable 0
Do something boring 0
(Organic) machinery 0
Distorting time 0
Display your talent 0
Discover your formulas and abandon them 0
Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them 0
Disciplined self-indulgence 0
Change specifics to ambiguities 0
Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency 0
Change instrument roles 0
Always the first steps 0
Always give yourself credit for having more than personality 0
Always first steps 0
Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture) 0
Adding on 0
Accretion 0
Accept advice 0
Abandon normal instructions 0
Abandon desire 0
Are there sections? Consider transitions 0
Ask people to work against their better judgement 0
Ask your body 0
Change ambiguities to specifics 0
Cascades 0
Call your mother and ask her what to do. 0
Bridges -build -burn 0
Breathe more deeply 0
Be less critical more often 0
Be extravagant 0
Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle 0
Back up a few steps. What else could you have done? 0
A very small object -Its centre 0
Left channel, right channel, centre channel 0
Instead of changing the thing, change the world around it. 0
Infinitesimal gradations 0
In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly 0
Imagine the music as a series of disconnected events 0
Imagine the music as a moving chain or caterpillar 0
Idiot glee (?) 0
Humanize something that is free of error. 0
How would you have done it? 0
How would you explain this to your parents? 0
Intentions -credibility of -nobility of -humility of 0
Into the impossible 0
Is it finished? 0
Just carry on 0
It is simply a matter or work 0
It is quite possible (after all) 0
Is there something missing? 0
Is the tuning intonation correct? 0
Is the tuning appropriate? 0
Is the style right? 0
Is the intonation correct? 0
Is something missing? 0
How would someone else do it? 0
Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place 0
Go slowly all the way round the outside 0
Emphasize the flaws 0
Emphasize repetitions 0
Emphasize differences 0
Don't stress one thing more than another 0
Don't break the silence 0
Don't be frightened to display your talents 0
Don't be frightened of cliches 0
Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do 0
Don't avoid what is easy 0
Faced with a choice, do both 0
Feed the recording back out of the medium 0
Feedback recordings into an acoustic situation 0
Go outside. Shut the door. 0
Give way to your worst impulse 0
Give the game away 0
Ghost echoes 0
Get your neck massaged 0
From nothing to more than nothing 0
First work alone, then work in unusual pairs. 0
Find a safe part and use it as an anchor 0
Fill every beat with something 0
Do the words need changing? 0


Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 06:09 (seventeen years ago)

Which parts can be grouped?

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 06:12 (seventeen years ago)

Discard an axiom

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 06:15 (seventeen years ago)

your mistake was a hidden intention
emphasise the flaws

electricsound, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 06:17 (seventeen years ago)

Overtly resist change

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 06:17 (seventeen years ago)

Repetition is a form of change

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 06:18 (seventeen years ago)

Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 06:46 (seventeen years ago)

75% of these are repeats

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 06:46 (seventeen years ago)

probably a compilation of editions

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 06:53 (seventeen years ago)

Your mistake was a hidden intention

s1ocki, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 07:02 (seventeen years ago)

be dirty

latebloomer, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 11:13 (seventeen years ago)

your mistake was a hidden intention definitely. The one about listening quietly in a dark room is a good one too.

Pashmina, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 11:44 (seventeen years ago)

close the door and listen from outside...or however that one goes...

hmmm, the last time i was jobless and poor round xmas i made oblique strategy decks for friends and family, using the strategies to fill the backside of avery business card paper, then hand lettered random assortments of cards...back when i did stuff

bb, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:13 (seventeen years ago)

You are an engineer

Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

You are a pirate

sleep, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

^ perhaps we should make OBTUSE STRATEGIES

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 20:26 (seventeen years ago)

Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing

John Justen, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

Faced with a choice, do both

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 28 February 2008 18:27 (seventeen years ago)

try faking it

69, Thursday, 28 February 2008 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Friday, 29 February 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Saturday, 1 March 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Erik Satie's Performance Indications

Milton Parker, Saturday, 1 March 2008 00:06 (seventeen years ago)


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