Make Oblique Strategies work

Externals/macOS_EnableScriptingTools.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+beep
+beep
+
+CONFIG_FILE="/Users/esaruoho/Library/Preferences/Renoise/V3.4.3/Config.xml"
+
+killall Renoise
+
+
+# This command uses sed to replace 'false' with 'true' for the specific XML tag
+sed -i 's/<ShowScriptingDevelopmentTools>false<\/ShowScriptingDevelopmentTools>/<ShowScriptingDevelopmentTools>true<\/ShowScriptingDevelopmentTools>/g' "$CONFIG_FILE"
+
+cd /Applications
+open -a Renoise.app

Externals/obliquestrategies.txt

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+(Organic) machinery
+A line has two sides
+A very small object         Its center
+Abandon desire
+Abandon normal instructions
+Abandon normal instruments
+Accept advice
+Accretion
+Adding on
+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)
+Always the first steps
+Are there sections?  Consider transitions
+Ask people to work against their better judgement
+Ask your body
+Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group
+Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle
+Be dirty
+Be extravagant
+Be less critical
+Breathe more deeply
+Bridges -build -burn
+Cascades
+Change ambiguities to specifics
+Change instrument roles
+Change nothing and continue consistently
+Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency
+Change specifics to ambiguities
+Children   -speaking     -singing
+Cluster analysis
+Consider different fading systems
+Consider transitions
+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
+Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing
+Discard an axiom
+Disciplined self-indulgence
+Disconnect from desire
+Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them
+Discover your formulas and abandon them
+Display your talent
+Distort time
+Distorting time
+Do nothing for as long as possible
+Do something boring
+Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable
+Do the last thing first
+Do the washing up
+Do the words need changing?
+Do we need holes?
+Don't avoid what is easy
+Don't be frightened of cliches
+Don't break the silence
+Don't stress on thing more than another [sic]
+Don't stress one thing more than another
+Dont be afraid of things because they're easy to do
+Dont be frightened to display your talents
+Emphasize differences
+Emphasize repetitions
+Emphasize 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
+Find a safe part and use it as an anchor
+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
+Go to an extreme, come part way back
+Honor thy error as a hidden intention
+Honor thy mistake as a hidden intention
+How would someone else do it?
+How would you have done it?
+Humanize something free of error
+Idiot glee (?)
+Imagine the piece as a set of disconnected events
+In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly
+Infinitesimal gradations
+Intentions   -nobility of  -humility of   -credibility of
+Into the impossible
+Is it finished?
+Is something missing?
+Is the information correct?
+Is the style right?
+Is there something missing
+It is quite possible (after all)
+It is simply a matter or work
+Just carry on
+Left channel, right channel, center channel
+Listen to the quiet voice
+Look at the order in which you do things
+Look closely at the most embarrassing details & amplify them
+Lost in useless territory
+Lowest common denominator
+Magnify the most difficult details
+Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame
+Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate
+Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list
+Make it more sensual
+Make what's perfect more human
+Mechanicalize something idiosyncratic
+Move towards the unimportant
+Mute and continue
+Not building a wall; making a brick
+Once the search has begun, something will be found
+Only a part, not the whole
+Only one element of each kind
+Openly resist change
+Overtly resist change
+Pae White's non-blank graphic metacard
+Put in earplugs
+Question the heroic
+Question the heroic approach
+Reevaluation (a warm feeling)
+Remember quiet evenings
+Remember those quiet evenings
+Remove a restriction
+Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics
+Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities
+Repetition is a form of change
+Retrace your steps
+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
+Slow preparation, fast execution
+Spectrum analysis
+State the problem as clearly as possible
+State the problem in words as clearly as possible
+Take a break
+Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance
+Take away the important parts
+Tape your mouth (given by Ritva Saarikko)
+The inconsistency principle
+The most easily forgotten thing is the most important
+The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten
+The tape is now the music
+Think - inside the work -outside the work
+Think of the radio
+Tidy up
+Towards the insignificant
+Trust in the you of now
+Try faking it (from Stewart Brand)
+Turn it upside down
+Twist the spine
+Use 'unqualified' people
+Use an old idea
+Use an unacceptable color
+Use cliches
+Use fewer notes
+Use filters
+Use something nearby as a model
+Use your own ideas
+Voice your suspicions
+Water
+What are the sections sections of?    Imagine a caterpillar moving
+What are you really thinking about just now?
+What context would look right?
+What is the reality of the situation?
+What is the simplest solution?
+What mistakes did you make last time?
+What to increase? What to reduce? What to maintain?
+What were you really thinking about just now?
+What would your closest friend do?
+What wouldn't you do?
+When is it for?
+Where is the edge?
+Which parts can be grouped?
+Work at a different speed
+Would anyone want it?
+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
+[blank white card]