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POSSIBLE MOVES ::
An evolving list of strategies for group improvisation
by Jeremy P. Bushnell (after Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies)
Add a voice
Add chaos
Adjust the settings
Air? Earth? Fire? Water?
Build up to where you are now
Change a voice
Change the room's ambience
Do this piece next week
Do what the machines want
Draw a Tarot card
Draw power from an existing idiom
Erase the blackboard
Every sound is a good sound
Evoke a landscape
Get rid of the structure
It could be even uglier
It's OK to leave it unfinished
Leave the settings where they are
Less electric
Let the music write itself
Let the piece develop through time
Look at a picture
Make it into a cycle
More electric
More holy
More primal
Make oppositional sounds
One more drone should do it
Play the background
Raid an old piece for ideas
Record it as is
Revisit an idea you once gave up on
Rely on each other
Silence is an instrument
Solid? Liquid? Gas?
Start from zero
Start here and disassemble it
Start here and freak out
Start with one sound you like
Switch instruments
Take a break
The settings are an instrument
The textures are the key here
This is the opening track
This one's for synaesthetics
Title it first
Try a pattern
Turn it into a sample
Turn something off
Try something cuter
Try something you haven't before
Use your body
Volume is an instrument
What is the second part?
What sound doesn't fit?
Write a lyric
Suggestions for additional Moves can be mailed to jeremy AT invisble-city.com.
These rules are ©2002 Jeremy P. Bushnell, but copies may be made freely by any individual for noncommercial purposes.
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