edition: 2
year: 1978
strategies:
  - "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 one thing more than another"
  - "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?"
  - "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"
