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Eno, Bowie, et al also used it during the sessions for Low and Radiohead used it during the sessions for Kid A/Amnesiac. Its also related tangentially to Burro
by wstepp 12y ago
Eno, Bowie, et al also used it during the sessions for Low and Radiohead used it during the sessions for Kid A/Amnesiac. Its also related tangentially to Burroughs cut-up technique. Sources are the 33 1/3 book series on Low and Wikipedia, though I don't have links handy.
Really interesting to me. I like its paradoxical practicality. I'm sure it could be used for many different kinds of creative endeavors. Perhaps even software.
- peteretep 12y agoI use them for software. Generally they are a prompt for a five minute time-boxed stream of consciousness writing session about the problem I am trying to solve.
- theoh 12y agoThe Oblique Strategies cards get a mention in this cartoon about Bowie and Eno recording Low: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FODvjYoVEi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FODvjYoVEi8
- wstepp 12y agoI love the fact that cartoon exists.