- Abandon normal instruments
- Accept advice
- Accretion
- A line has two sides
- Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)
- Always first steps
- Always give yourself credit for having more than personality (given by Arto Lindsay)
- Are there sections? Consider transitions
- Ask people to work against their better judgement
- Ask your body
- Assemble some of the instruments in a group and treat the group
- A very small object -Its centre
- Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle
- Be dirty
- Be extravagant
- Breathe more deeply
- Bridges -build -burn
- Cascades
- Change instrument roles
- Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency
- Children's voices -speaking -singing
- Cluster analysis
- Consider different fading systems
- Consult other sources -promising -unpromising
- Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element
- Courage!
- Cut a vital connection
- Decorate, decorate
- Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor
- Destroy -nothing -the most important thing
- Discard an axiom
- Disciplined self-indulgence
- Disconnect from desire
- Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them
- Distorting time
- Do nothing for as long as possible
- Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do
- Don't be frightened of cliches
- Don't be frightened to display your talents
- Don't break the silence
- Don't stress * on* thing more than another (sic)
- Do something boring
- Do the washing up
- Do the words need changing?
- Do we need holes?
- Emphasise differences
- Emphasise repetitions
- Emphasise the flaws
- Faced with a choice, do both (given by Dieter Rot)
- Feed the recording back out of the medium
- Fill every beat with something
- Get your neck massaged
- Ghost echoes
- Give the game away
- Give way to your worst impulse
- Go outside. Shut the door.
- Go slowly all the way round the outside
- Honor thy error as a hidden intention
- How would you have done it?
- Humanise something free of error
- Idiot glee (?)
- Imagine the piece as a set of disconnected events
- Infinitesimal gradations
- Intentions -credibility of -nobility of -humility of
- In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly
- Into the impossible
- Is it finished?
- Is the tuning intonation correct?
- Is there something missing?
- It is quite possible (after all)
- Just carry on
- Left channel, right channel, centre channel
- Listen to the quiet voice
- Look at the order in which you do things
- Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them
- Lost in useless territory
- Lowest common denominator
- 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
- Mechanicalise something idiosyncratic
- Mute and continue
- Not building a wall but making a brick
- Only one element of each kind
- (Organic) machinery
- Overtly resist change
- Put in earplugs
- Question the heroic approach
- Remember .those quiet evenings
- Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics
- Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities
- Repetition is a form of change
- Revaluation (a warm feeling)
- Reverse
- Short circuit (example; a man eating peas with the idea that they will improve his virility shovels them straight into his lap)
- Simple subtraction
- Simply a matter of work
- Spectrum analysis
- State the problem in words as simply as possible
- Take a break
- Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance
- Tape your mouth (given by Ritva Saarikko)
- The inconsistency principle
- The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten
- The tape is now the music
- Think of the radio
- Tidy up
- Towards the insignificant
- Trust in the you of now
- Turn it upside down
- Twist the spine
- Use an old idea
- Use an unacceptable colour
- Use fewer notes
- Use filters
- Use 'unqualified' people
- Water
- What are the sections sections of? Imagine a caterpillar moving
- What are you really thinking about just now?
- What is the reality of the situation?
- What mistakes did you make last time?
- What would your closest friend do?
- What wouldn't you do?
- What would your closest friend do?
- Work at a different speed
- You are an engineer
- You can only make one dot at a time
- You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas