Remove Specifics and convert to ambiguities % Don't be frightened of cliches % What is the reality of the situation? % Are there sections? % Consider transitions % Turn it upsidedown % Think of the radio % Allow an easement (an easement is an abandonment of a stricture) % Simple subtraction % Be dirty % Go slowly all the way round the outside % A line has two sides % Into the impossible % Towards the insignificant % Ask people to work against their better judgements % Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance % Infintesimal gradations % Change instrument roles % Accretion % Disconnect from desire % Emphasise repetitions % Faced with a choice, do both % Children -speaking -singing % Lost in useless territory % A very small object % Its centre % Don't be afraid of things because they are easy to do % Don't be frightened to display your talents % Breathe more deeply % Honor thy error as a hidden intention % What are the sections sections of? % Imagine a caterpillar moving % only one element of each kind % Is there something missing % Use 'unqualified' people % How would you have done it? % Emphasise differences % Do nothing for as long as possible % Bridges -build -burn % Always give yourself credit for having more than one personality % You don't need to be ashamed of using your own ideas % Tidy up % Do the words need changing? % Ask your body % Tape your mouth % Water % Simply a matter of work % Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action % Incorporate % Use an unacceptable colour % Humanise something free from error % Use filters % Fill every beat with something % Discard an axiom % Not building a wall, but making a brick % What wouldn't you do? % Lowest common denominator % Decorate, decorate % Balance the consistancy principle with the inconsistancy principle % Get your neck massaged % Listen to the quiet voice % Do the washing up % Is it finished? % Put in earplugs % Re-evaluation (a warm feeling) % Give the name away % Intentions -nobility of -humility of credibility of % Abandon normal instruments % Use fewer notes % repetition is a form of change % Give way to your worst impulse % Reverse % Trust in the you of now % Imagine the piece as a set of disconnected events % What would your closest friend do? % Distorting time % Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame % Feed the recording back out of the medium % Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element % The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten % Ghost echoes % You can only make one dot at a time % Just carry on % (Organic) machinery % The inconsistancy principle % Don't break the silence % Idiot Glee (?) % Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them % Cascades % Courage! % Spectrum analysis % What mistakes did you make the last time? % Consider differnet fading systems % Mute and continue % Be extravagant % It is quite possible (after all) % What are you really thinking about just now? % Don't stress onr thing more than another % State the problem in words as clearly as possible % Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group % You are a musician % Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics % Look at the order in which you do things % Go outside % Shut the door % Disciplined self-indulgence % Do we need holes? % Cluster analysis % Always first steps % Cut a vital connection % Do something boring % Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor % Is the information correct? % Overtly resist change % Question the heroic approach % Accept advice % Twist the spine % Work at a different speed % Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them % Mechanicalise something idiosyncratric % Emphasise the flaws % Remember those quiet evenings % Take a break % Left channel, right channel, centre channel % Use an old idea % Destroy -nothing -the most important thing % Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistancy % The tape is now the music % char*s="char*s=%c%s%c;main(){printf(s,34,s,34);}";main(){printf(s,34,s,34);} % Black holes are where God divided by zero %