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He joined forces with Schmidt, a friend and artist, after learning they had developed similar systems for lateral thinking.Ĭourtesy of the Pomona College Humanities Studio, I’m sitting in the Hive with the prolific music journalist, Geeta Dayal, who is leading a workshop on Eno and Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies as a follow-up to her talk the previous night.ĭayal is the author of “Brian Eno: Another Green World” in the 33⅓ series, a collection of short books about albums.
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Eno, a producer and musician (although self-described “ non-musician ”), is widely credited with conceptualizing and popularizing ambient music. In 1975, Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt published the Oblique Strategies cards, a deck of “over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas” designed to break down artistic barriers and spark creative insight. This one advises me to “remove specifics and convert to ambiguities.” Alright, I can work with that. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with that, so I turn the card over and read the next one.
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I’m holding a small piece of white cardstock printed with a pithy instruction: “Give way to your worst impulse.” Music journalist Geeta Dayal holds a set of Oblique Strategies instructional cards, which she said can encourage creative thinking, at her talk at the Hive last Friday.
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