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In 1975, the musician Brian Eno (and the painter Peter Schmidt) published a set of flash-cards called Oblique Strategies.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2009
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They will copy their supreme commander's favorite device … When we find generals under Frederick the Great using the so-called Oblique Order of Battle … then we recognize in these repetitions a ready-made method, and see that even the highest ranks are not above the influence of routine … (p. 154) 3) The commander might not scrutinize various assumptions that are inherent in his knowledge.
Chicago Boyz 2009
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These include his abiding interest in cybernetic systems and the element of chance in the recording process, famously represented by his Oblique Strategies cards developed with the painter Peter Schmidt.
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The other day I had forgotten the two words in music that mean one voice is stationary while the other is in motion: “Oblique motion.”
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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The other day I had forgotten the two words in music that mean one voice is stationary while the other is in motion: “Oblique motion.”
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Oblique injuries have become the scourge of Yankees spring training, felling Joba Chamberlain, Sergio Mitre, Greg Golson and now Curtis Granderson, whose status for opening day is in jeopardy.
The Yankees Have a New Nemesis: The Oblique Injury Daniel Barbarisi 2011
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On a slightly more tangential note, have you heard of Eno's Oblique Strategies?
Videogames and Digital Musicians Ben Abraham 2008
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Other great programs include Oblique Flying Wing, FALCON and its successors and more than I can list.
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Its funny that Reed Robins mentions ‘Oblique Strategies’.
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Oblique lighting caresses every marble muscle and lunar pockmark in the gargoyles that, from atop Notre Dame, contemplate flâneurs below on sinful Earth.
Graham Robb's "Parisians" and Yvon's Paris, photos of Pierre Yves Petit Michael Sims 2010
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