Oblique strategy (subtitles More Than One Hundred Valuable Dilemmas ) is a card-based method for promoting creativity co-created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, first published in 1975. Physically, he took the form of a 7-by-9-centimeter (2.8 inch 3.5 inch) deck of cards printed in a black box. Each card offers challenging constraints that are intended to help artists (especially musicians) break the creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking.
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In 1970, Peter Schmidt created "The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts", a box of 55 letterpress letters printed on the prints that had accumulated in his studio, still in Eno's possession. Eno, who has known Schmidt since the late 1960s, has pursued the same project (which he wrote on a number of bamboo cards and was named "Oblique Strategies" in 1974). There was significant overlap between the two projects, so at the end of 1974, Schmidt and Eno merged them into one card package and offered them for general sales. This set passed three limited edition prints before Schmidt died suddenly in the early 1980s, after which the card deck became somewhat rare and expensive. Sixteen years later the software pioneer Peter Norton convinced Eno to let him make the fourth edition as a Christmas present for his friends (not for sale, though sometimes they come to the auction). Eno's decision to review his card and his collaboration with Norton in revising it is described in detail in his 1996 book A Year with Swollen Appendices. With the public interest on the cards that did not diminish, in 2001, Eno again produced a new set of Oblique Strategy cards. The number and contents of the card vary according to the edition. In May 2013, a limited edition of 500 boxes, in burgundy instead of black, was issued.
The Story of Oblique Strategies, together with the contents of all cards, history and in-depth commentary, is documented on a website that is widely recognized as an authoritative source and united by musician and educator Gregory Alan Taylor.
The "Thoughts Behind the Thoughts" text Schmidt was published by Mindmade Books in 2012.
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Design and use
Each card contains suggestions or gnomic statements that can be used to break the deadlock or dilemma situation. Some specific for musical compositions; others are more common. As an example:
- Use old ideas.
- State the problem with the words as clearly as possible.
- Only one element of each type.
- What will your closest friends do?
- What to upgrade? What to reduce?
- Is there part? Consider the transition.
- Try faking it!
- Respect your mistake as a hidden intent.
- Ask your body.
- Works at different speeds.
From the introduction of the 2001 edition:
These cards evolved from a separate observation of the underlying principles of what we did. Sometimes they are recognized in retrospect (intellectual pursuit with intuition), sometimes they are identified as they occur, sometimes they are formulated.
They can be used as packages, or by drawing one card from a shuffled packet when the dilemma occurs in a work situation. In this case the card is trusted even if its feasibility is quite unclear...
Cultural impact
References to Oblique Strategies exist in popular culture, especially in Slacker movies, where characters offer cards that pass from the deck. The strategies mentioned include "Respect your mistakes as hidden intentions", "Look closely at the most embarrassing details and reinforcement", "Do not build walls, make bricks", "Repetition is a form of change", and one that comes to be seen as a summary of the movie ethos (though it's not part of the official Oblique Strategies group), "Resigning with disgust is not the same thing with apathy." This sentence is quoted in the 1994 song "What the Frequency, Kenneth?" by R.E.M., who also mentioned the Oblique Strategies in their 1998 song "Diminished" from the album Up . The Oblique strategy is also referenced in the 1018 comic, "Oblique Angles", from the popular web comics Questionable Content .
Other musicians inspired by Oblique Strategies including the British band Coldplay, are said to have used the cards while recording their 2008 album Brian Eno-produced Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends and the French Phoenix band, which uses cards while recording their 2009 album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix . German musician/composer Blixa Bargeld has a similar navigation system, called Dave. In response to their song "Brian Eno", from their album Happy , MGMT says they have a bunch of Oblique Strategies in the studio, but they "do not know if [they] use them properly."
They are most famously used by Eno during the recording of David Bowie's Berlin triptych album ( Low, "Heroes", Lodger ). Stories suggest they are used during instrumental recording on "Heroes" such as "Sense of Doubt" and are used more extensively on Lodgers ("Fantastic Voyage", "Boys Keep Swinging", "Red Money"). They were used again on the 1995 Bowie album Outside , which involved Eno as a writer, producer and musician. Carlos Alomar, who works with Eno and Bowie on all these albums, is a fan of cards, then says "at the Performing Arts Center at Stevens Institute of Technology, where I teach, on the wall of Strategy Brian Eno Oblique card. I get a mental block, I direct them to the wall. "
Editions and variations
See also
- Aleatoric music
- Fluxus Ã,§Ã, Event Score
- I Ching
- Lateral thinking
- Air Yam (artist book)
- Darker than the Shark
References
External links
- Oblique Strategy
- Online version
- Brian Eno explains the Oblique Strategy on the BBC BBC show Jarvis Cocker, November 8, 2010
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