Oblique is a Max For Live device that puts a little Eno into Ableton Live.
Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) is originally a deck of printed cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt and first published in 1975. Each card offers an aphorism intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking.
Oblique puts Eno & Schmidt’s ‘Dilemmas’ into Live. See the Max For Live site for details.
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Devilish. Thank you.
If you are interested by the concept, don’t forget to check out “Inspiration” by musical entropy, which improves a little the concept 😉
http://musicalentropy.wordpress.com
just checked out inspiration Ivan, thanks for the reference, seems like a great tool!
http://oblicard.com
Here is an online one, i just found! Really nice!
Or…… go to eno’s website and buy a deck. Thwn use them anywhere!
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with looking at these, but i don’t see why you wouldn’t make your own “oblique strategies”.
Nothing is stopping you from doing that.. Even edit the Max Patch to include your own.