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- #! /usr/bin/python3
- import datetime
- import hashlib
- strats = [
- "Abandon normal instruments.",
- "Accept advice.",
- "Accretion.",
- "A line has two sides.",
- "Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture).",
- "Are there sections? Consider transitions.",
- "Ask people to work against their better judgment.",
- "Ask your body.",
- "Assemble some of the instruments in a group and treat the group.",
- "Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle.",
- "Be dirty.",
- "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.",
- "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?",
- "Emphasize differences.",
- "Emphasize repetitions.",
- "Emphasize the flaws.",
- "Faced with a choice, do both. (given by Dieter Rot)",
- "Feedback recordings into an acoustic situation.",
- "Fill every beat with something.",
- "Get your neck massaged.",
- "Ghost echoes.",
- "Give the game away.",
- "Give way to your worst impulse.",
- "Go slowly all the way round the outside.",
- "Honor thy error as a hidden intention.",
- "How would you have done it?",
- "Humanize something free of error.",
- "Imagine the music as a moving chain or caterpillar.",
- "Imagine the music as a set of disconnected events.",
- "Infinitesimal gradations.",
- "Intentions - credibility of - nobility of - humility of.",
- "Into the impossible.",
- "Is it finished?",
- "Is there something missing?",
- "Is the tuning appropriate?",
- "Just carry on.",
- "Left channel, right channel, centre channel.",
- "Listen in total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly.",
- "Listen to the quiet voice.",
- "Look at a very small object, look at its centre.",
- "Look at the order in which you do things.",
- "Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them.",
- "Lowest common denominator check - single beat - single note - single riff.",
- "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.",
- "Mechanicalize something idiosyncratic.",
- "Mute and continue.",
- "Only one element of each kind.",
- "Organic) machinery.",
- "Overtly resist change.",
- "Put in earplugs.",
- "Remember those quiet evenings.",
- "Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics.",
- "Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities.",
- "Repetition is a form of change.",
- "Reverse.",
- "Short circuit. (example; a man eating peas with the idea that they will improve his virility shovels them straight into his lap)",
- "Shut the door and listen from outside.",
- "Simple subtraction.",
- "Spectrum analysis.",
- "Take a break.",
- "Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance.",
- "Tape your mouth. (given by Ritva Saarikko)",
- "The inconsistency principle.",
- "The tape is now the music.",
- "Think of the radio.",
- "Tidy up.",
- "Trust in the you of now.",
- "Turn it upside down.",
- "Twist the spine.",
- "Use an old idea.",
- "Use an unacceptable color.",
- "Use fewer notes.",
- "Use filters.",
- "Use 'unqualified' people.",
- "Water.",
- "What are you really thinking about just now? Incorporate.",
- "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.",
- "blank white card"
- ]
- today = bytes(datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%Y%m%d"), encoding='utf-8')
- idx = int(hashlib.sha1(today).hexdigest(), 16) % len(strats)
- print( strats[idx] )
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