(Organic) machinery %% A line has two sides %% A very small object
-Its centre %% Abandon desire %% Abandon normal instructions %% Abandon normal instruments %% Accept advice %% Accretion %% Adding on %% Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture) %% Always first steps %% Always first steps %% Always give yourself credit for having more than personality (given by Arto Lindsay) %% Always the first steps %% Are there sections? Consider transitions %% Ask people to work against their better judgement %% Ask your body %% Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group %% Assemble some of the instruments in a group and treat the group %% Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle %% Be dirty %% Be extravagant %% Be less critical %% Be less critical more often %% Breathe more deeply %% Bridges
-build
-burn %% Cascades %% Change ambiguities to specifics %% Change instrument roles %% Change nothing and continue consistently %% Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency %% Change specifics to ambiguities %% Children
-speaking
-singing %% Children's voices
-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
-the most important thing %% Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing %% Discard an axiom %% Disciplined self-indulgence %% Disconnect from desire %% Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them %% Discover your formulas and abandon them %% Display your talent %% Distort time %% Distorting 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? %% DonUt 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 on thing more than another (sic) %% Don't stress one thing more than another %% Emphasize differences %% Emphasize repetitions %% Emphasize the flaws %% Faced with a choice, do both (from Dieter Rot) %% Faced with a choice, do both (given by 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 %% 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, come part way back %% Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place %% Honor thy error as a hidden intention %% How would someone else do it? %% How would you have done it? %% Humanize something free of error %% Idiot glee (?) %% Imagine the music as a moving chain or caterpillar %% Imagine the music as a set of disconnected events %% Imagine the piece as a set of disconnected events %% In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly %% Infinitesimal gradations %% Intentions
-credibility of
-nobility of
-humility of %% Intentions
-nobility of
-humility of
-credibility of %% Into the impossible %% Is it finished? %% Is something missing? %% Is the intonation correct? %% Is the style right? %% Is the tuning appropriate? %% Is there something missing? %% It is quite possible %% It is simply a matter of work %% 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 %% Lost in useless territory %% Lowest common denominator %% Lowest common denominator check
-single beat
-single note
-single riff %% Magnify the most difficult details %% 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 what's perfect more human %% Mechanicalize something idiosyncratic %% Move towards the unimportant %% Mute and continue %% Not building a wall but making a brick %% Not building a wall; making a brick %% Once the search has begun, something will be found %% 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 %% Overtly resist change %% Put in earplugs %% Question the heroic %% Question the heroic approach %% Remember .those quiet evenings %% Remember 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 %% 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 %% Simply a matter of work %% Slow preparation, fast execution %% Spectrum analysis %% State the problem as clearly as possible %% 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
- inside the work
-outside the work %% Think of the radio %% Tidy up %% Towards the insignificant %% Trust in the you of now %% Try faking it (from Stewart Brand) %% Turn it upside down %% Twist the spine %% 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 `unqualified' people %% Voice your suspicions %% Water %% What are the sections sections of? Imagine a caterpillar moving %% 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? %% When is it for? %% Where is the edge? %% Which parts can be grouped? %% Work at a different speed %% Would anybody want it? %% Would anyone want it? %% 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 %% [blank card] %% Steal a solution. %% Describe the landscape in which this belongs. %% What else is this like? %% List the qualities it has.
List those you'd like. %% Instead of changing the thing,
change the world around it. %% What would make this really successful? %% How would you explain this to your parents? %% What were the branch points in the evolution of this entity? %% Back up a few steps.
What else could you have done? %% When is it for?
Who is it for? %% What do you do? Now, what do you do best? %% First work alone, then work in unusual pairs. %% What most recently impressed you?
How is it similar?
What can you learn from it?
What could you take from it? %% Take away as much mystery as possible. What is left?