120 lines
4.5 KiB
Python
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120 lines
4.5 KiB
Python
Executable file
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Collin Cunningham for Adafruit Industries
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#
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
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strategies = [
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"Abandon normal instruments",
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"Accept advice",
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"Accretion",
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"A line has two sides",
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"Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)",
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"Are there sections? Consider transitions",
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"Ask people to work against their better judgement",
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"Ask your body",
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"Assemble some of the instruments in a group and treat the group",
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"Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle",
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"Be dirty",
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"Breathe more deeply",
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"Bridges -build -burn",
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"Cascades",
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"Change instrument roles",
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"Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency",
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"Children's voices -speaking -singing",
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"Cluster analysis",
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"Consider different fading systems",
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"Consult other sources -promising -unpromising",
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"Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element",
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"Courage!",
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"Cut a vital connection",
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"Decorate, decorate",
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"Define an area as `safe' and use it as an anchor",
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"Destroy -nothing -the most important thing",
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"Discard an axiom",
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"Disconnect from desire",
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"Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them",
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"Distorting time",
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"Do nothing for as long as possible",
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"Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do",
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"Don't be frightened of cliches",
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"Don't be frightened to display your talents",
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"Don't break the silence",
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"Don't stress one thing more than another",
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"Do something boring",
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"Do the washing up",
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"Do the words need changing?",
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"Do we need holes?",
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"Emphasize differences",
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"Emphasize repetitions",
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"Emphasize the flaws",
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"Faced with a choice, do both (given by Dieter Rot)",
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"Feedback recordings into an acoustic situation",
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"Fill every beat with something",
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"Get your neck massaged",
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"Ghost echoes",
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"Give the game away",
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"Give way to your worst impulse",
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"Go slowly all the way round the outside",
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"Honor thy error as a hidden intention",
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"How would you have done it?",
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"Humanize something free of error",
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"Imagine the music as a moving chain or caterpillar",
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"Imagine the music as a set of disconnected events",
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"Infinitesimal gradations",
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"Intentions -credibility of -nobility of -humility of",
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"Into the impossible",
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"Is it finished?",
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"Is there something missing?",
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"Is the tuning appropriate?",
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"Just carry on",
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"Left channel, right channel, centre channel",
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"Listen in total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly",
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"Listen to the quiet voice",
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"Look at a very small object, look at its centre",
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"Look at the order in which you do things",
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"Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them",
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"Lowest common denominator check -single beat -single note -single riff",
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"Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame",
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"Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list",
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"Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate",
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"Mechanicalize something idiosyncratic",
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"Mute and continue",
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"Only one element of each kind",
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"(Organic) machinery",
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"Overtly resist change",
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"Put in earplugs",
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"Remember those quiet evenings",
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"Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics",
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"Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities",
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"Repetition is a form of change",
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"Reverse",
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("Short circuit (example: a man eating peas with the idea that they will improve his virility "
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"shovels them straight into his lap)"),
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"Shut the door and listen from outside",
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"Simple subtraction",
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"Spectrum analysis",
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"Take a break",
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"Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance",
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"Tape your mouth (given by Ritva Saarikko)",
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"The inconsistency principle",
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"The tape is now the music",
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"Think of the radio",
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"Tidy up",
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"Trust in the you of now",
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"Turn it upside down",
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"Twist the spine",
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"Use an old idea",
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"Use an unacceptable color",
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"Use fewer notes",
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"Use filters",
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"Use `unqualified' people",
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"Water",
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"What are you really thinking about just now? Incorporate",
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"What is the reality of the situation?",
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"What mistakes did you make last time?",
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"What would your closest friend do?",
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"What wouldn't you do?",
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"Work at a different speed",
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"You are an engineer",
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"You can only make one dot at a time",
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"You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas",
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]
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