Titles ====== I learnt my lesson well If you are honest, you never stop being who you were Algorithm The Last Boomer Birth Control Ambulance Queue Power Cut Map of SW postcodes Intuitive introvert cogs etc Winter of Discontent (Nov 78 - Feb 79) Three Day Week Duomo South Mimms Time is ignorance Buy the sky Gentle Jesus Chatbot Pegboard Compensation Subtract more Battersea Wandsworth Lambeth old borders Light and shade. Chiaroscuro Jungian shadow Midnight's Children Flags, Britain, America, France, USA, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Russian, Ukraine Violin, Wigmore Hall COV 2 Tone In my heart's core Sisyphus builds a rock rolling machine Old Battersea Bridge White on white chess after Yoko Ono Murmuration The show off gene AVX 774 Red London - draw structure with pastels Leonardo drawing anatomy Simplicity to complexity Base ten time Product versus process King and Queen of America Day length Keep away from Notting Hill Gate Sea Monster made from inner tubes Constituencies in South London Philip Guston and Musa Mckim Calendar Airplane silhouette and undercarriage London Boroughs Walter Benjamin People machines, inputs output processing Slot boxPandemic PictureSmall faraday cage, wire and mesh Arduino LED words A C E F G H I J L O P S U Y Depleted creativity Reverse dead body silhouette Everyone I know will die, everyone I don't know will die Je suis en route pour la maison I'm not going to be in a hurry to use my car until you guys get home Build it again, and again Laurel Canyon, LA map TB sheets Playing dominoes in drag Zone 2 Pink globe map, empire Robots The attention economy 2024 2025 Car Registration Plates 7 x 3 pegboard Atlas Coffee Spoons (counting time) Van Gogh drawings - add colour Zero Draft Brass Instruments Battersea Wandsworth Lambeth borders revised Draw a virus Facial Shingles Nerve Tree Use Processing Bit Rot Cotton Capital Stockwell Six Oval Four Tottenham Court Road Two Asylum Collection Memento Mori ============ Poly Styrene (1957 - 2011) 53 years Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918) 25 years John Keats (1795 - 1821) 25 years Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) 66 years Mozart (1756 - 1791) 35 years May Neville (1893 ) years Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) 37 years Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917) 39 years Kirsty MacColl (1959 - 2000) 42 years Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) 42 years Rebecca Horn (1944 - 2024) 80 years Joe Strummer (1952 - 2002) 50 years Édouard Manet (1832 - 1883) 51 years Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) 41 years Derek Jarman (1942 - 1994) 52 years Ian Dury (1942 - 2000) 57 years Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) 58 years Terry Hall (1959 - 2022) 63 years Shane MacGowan (1957 - 2023) 65 years Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005) 92 years Benjamin Zephaniah (1958 - 2023) 65 years Mark Rothko (1903 - 1970) 66 years Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992) 82 years Gordon Brown (1933 - 2021) 88 years Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) 91 years Martin Amis (1949 - 2023) 73 years David Bowie (1947 - 2016) 69 years Philip Guston (1913 - 1980) 66 years John Cage (1912 - 1992) 79 years Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) 97 years Alfréd Haar (1885 - 1933) 47 years Marc Bolan (1947 - 1977) 29 years Paul Éluard (1895 - 1952) 56 years Max Ernst (1891 - 1976) 84 years Takis, Panayiotis Vassilakis (1925 - 2019) 93 years Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 1966) 64 years Richard Hunt (1935 - 2023) 88 years Oblique Strategies ================== Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities Don't be frightened of cliches What is the reality of the situation? Are there sections? Consider transitions Turn it upside down Think of the radio Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture) Simple subtraction Be dirty Go slowly all the way round the outside A line has two sides Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list Into the impossible Towards the insignificant Ask people to work against their better judgement Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance Infinitesimal gradations Change instrument roles Accretion Disconnect from desire Emphasize repetitions Faced with a choice, do both (given by Dieter Rot) Children - speaking - singing Lost in useless territory A very small object. Its center Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do Don't be frightened to display your talents Breathe more deeply Honor thy error as a hidden intention What are the sections sections of? Imagine a caterpillar moving Only one element of each kind Is there something missing? Use 'unqualified' people How would you have done it? Emphasize differences Do nothing for as long as possible Bridges - build - burn Give yourself credit for having more than personality You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas Tidy up Do the words need changing? Ask your body Tape your mouth Water Simply a matter of work Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate Consult other sources - promising - unpromising Use an unacceptable color Humanize something free of error Use filters Fill every beat with something Discard an axiom Not building a wall but making a brick What wouldn't you do? Lowest common denominator Decorate, decorate Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle Get your neck massaged Listen to the quiet voice Do the washing up Is it finished? Put in earplugs Reevaluation (a warm feeling) Give the name away Intentions - nobility of - humility of - credibility of Abandon normal instruments Use fewer notes Repetition is a form of change Give way to your worst impulse Reverse Trust in the you of now Imagine the piece as a set of disconnected events What would your closest friend do? Distorting time Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame Feed the recording back out of the medium Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten Ghost echoes You can only make one dot at a time Just carry on (Organic) machinery The inconsistency principle Don't break the silence Idiot glee (?) Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them Cascades Courage! Spectrum analysis What mistakes did you make last time? Consider different fading systems Mute and continue Be extravagant It is quite possible (after all) What are you really thinking about just now? Don't stress on thing more than another [sic] State the problem in words as clearly as possible Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group You are an engineer Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics Look at the order in which you do things Go outside. Shut the door Disciplined self indulgence Do we need holes? Cluster analysis Always first steps Cut a vital connection Do something boring Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor Is the information correct? Overtly resist change Question the heroic approach Accept advice Twist the spine Work at a different speed Look closely at the most embarrassing details & amplify them Mechanicalize something idiosyncratic Emphasize the flaws Remember those quiet evenings Take a break Short circuit (example: a man eating peas with the idea that they will improve his virility shovels them straight into his lap) Left channel, right channel, center channel Use an old idea Destroy - nothing - the most important thing Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency The tape is now the music