(Organic) machinery

A line has two sides

A very small object - its center

Abandon desire

Abandon normal instructions

Abandon normal instruments

Accept advice Accretion

Allow an easement (the abandonment of a structure)

Always first steps

Always give yourself credit for having more than personality

Are there sections? Consider transitions

Ask people to work against their better judgement

Ask your body

Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group

Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle

Be dirty Be extravagant

Be less critical more often

Breathe more deeply

Bridges - build - burn

Cascades

Change ambiguities to specifics

Change instrument roles

Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency

Change specifics to ambiguities

Children - speaking - singing

Cluster analysis

Consider different fading systems

Consider transitions

Decorate, decorate

Cut a vital connection

Define an area safe and use it as an anchor

Destroy nothing - the most important thing Discard an axiom

Disconnect from desireDisciplined self-indulgence

Consult other sources - promising // unpromising

Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element

Courage!

Discover your formulas you are using and abandon them

Distort time

Display your talent

Do something boring

Do nothing for as long as possible

Do something sudden, destructive, and unpredictable

Do the last thing first Do the washing up

Do we need holes?Do the words need changing?

Dont avoid what is easy

Dont break the silence

Dont be frightened of cliches

Emphasize differences

Dont stress one thing more than another

Emphasize repetitions

Emphasize the flaws Faced with a choice, do both

Fill every beat with somethingFeed the recording back out of the medium

Find a safe part and use it as an anchor

Get your neck massaged

From nothing to more than nothing

Give the game away

Ghost echoes

Give way to your worst impulse

Shut the door and assess from outside Go slowly all the way round the outside

Your mistake was a hidden intentionGo to an extreme,

move back to a more comfortable place

How would someone else do it?

Humanize something free of error

How would you have done it?

Imagine the piece as a moving chain or caterpillar

Idiot glee (?)

Imagine the piece as a set of disconnected events

In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly

Infinitesimal gradations

Into the impossibleIntentions - nobility of - humility of - credibility of

Is it finished?

Is the intonation correct?

Is something missing?

Is there something missing?

Is the style right?

It is quite possible (after all)

It is simply a matter of work Just carry on

Left channel, right channel, center channel You can only make one dot at a time

Listen to the quiet voice

Look at the order in which you do things

Look at a very small object, look at its center

Lost in useless territory

Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them

Lowest common denominator

Magnify the most difficult details

Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list

Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate

Make it more sensual

Mechanicalize something idiosyncratic

Make whats perfect more human

Mute and continue

Move towards the unimportant

Not building a wall but making a brick

Once the search is in progress, something will be found Only a part, not the whole

Openly resist changeOnly one element of each kind

Put in earplugs

Reevaluation (a warm feeling)

Question the heroic approach

Remove a restriction

Remember those quiet evenings

Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics

Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities Repetition is a form of change

ReverseRetrace your steps

Short circuit

Simply a matter of work

Simple subtraction

Spectrum analysis

Slow preparation, fast execution

State the problem in words as clearly as possible

Take a breakTake away the elements

in order of apparent non-importance

Tape your mouthTake away the important parts

The inconsistency principle

The tape is now the music

The most easily forgotten thing is the most important

Think of the radio

Think - inside the work - outside the work

Tidy up

Towards the insignificant Trust in the you of now

Turn it upside downTry faking it

Twist the spine

Use an unacceptable colour

Use an old idea

Use fewer notes

Use cliches

Use filters

Use something nearby as a model Use unqualified people

Voice your suspicionsUse your own ideas

Water

What are you really thinking about just now?

What are the sections of? Imagine a caterpillar moving

What is the reality of the situation?

What context would look right?

What is the simplest solution?

What mistakes did you make last time?What to increase? What to reduce?

What to maintain?

What wouldnt you do?What would your closest friend do?

When is it for?

Which parts can be grouped?

Where is the edge?

Would anybody want it?

Work at a different speed

You are an engineer