Blog: Quick Before It Melts

Do you know about Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies? He describes them as a series of "worthwhile dilemmas" printed on index cards used to prompt creativity in the recording studio. Having a bit of mind block working out that guitar riff? Just go to your deck of Oblique Strategies cards and pull one out. Maybe you'll get "You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas" or perhaps "Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element" and that may help you on your way to musical genius. Perhaps when Coldplay and Eno were in the studio the "Make an [...]

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