Something is needed to break the stalemate without threatening either party. You've been there: tempers flair and people tend to retrench and become defensive. Engineer Ronan Chris Murphy has suggested that the cards could also be used in those awkward situations where you have two band members at odds over the course for the next creative step. The results can be either useful or entertaining but they will definately provoke thought. In application, Eno suggests that you can either shuffle the deck and pull out a card at random or riff through the pile until you find one that stimulates you. They suggested attitudes and ways of thinking to influence their actions and to encourage "lateral thinking.* " Eventually Eno suggested that they combine their strategies and put them out as a card set so that they could share the concept with artistic friends.Īnd so we have before us The Oblique Strategies. Both had strategies that were more creative than technical. Both had reduced their ideas to cards for easy access. At a meeting, they discovered how similarly they worked as they compared notes. The idea was to help push them off the dime, to remind them that there are other mindsets to enter that could suggest alternate possibilites rather than the most straightforward one. During lower-stress times they had independently begun journaling methods they used to approach those creative blocks when they weren't under pressure so that they could refer to them when they WERE under pressure. The two discovered that when they were under pressure, they had a tendency to go with the most straightforward solution, to work "within the box," which often wasn't the best solution. The idea sprung from meetings between the two artists when they compared notes and realized they both produced under time pressure and often encountered either writer's block or creative dilemmas that ordinarily wouldn't be a problem to solve but became a problem in high-stress production environments.
It is a pack of 100 cards, each with a short strategy or suggestion designed to help an artist break through either writer's block or a creative dilemma.
Sometimes it just needs a gentle kick in the butt.Įnter The Oblique Strategies, a rather unique creative tool created by producer and musician Brian Eno and his friend and painting teacher, Peter Schmidt. Creativity is an interesting thing that can at times be at odds with time pressure. As a composer and producer I've found myself with a nearly completed song or project on the DAW with an impending delivery date (or time), knowing it needed something but sitting, staring at the screen, wondering what to do to finish it. You are percolating along and all of a sudden you can't figure what to do next. Have you ever sat in your writing space, studio, or creative place, trying to finish a project but battling writer's block? It happens to lots of people, from beginners to the absolute pros. THE OBLIQUE STRATEGIES THE OBLIQUE STRATEGIES
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