First off, credit where it's due: I cribbed most of the URLs in this review from an excellent article by Frank Jones in Electronic Musician's 2002 Desktop Music Production Guide, so pick up a copy [it has a lot of other useful info in it too! -LC]. If you're a serious student of music recording then you already know who Eno is and what the Oblique Strategies are. If not, these URLs will clue you in. Here's the brief version: Eno is a pioneering producer, musician and free thinker (known for his work with Roxy Music, U2, Devo, David Bowie and the Talking Heads) that both Larry and I credit as a major inspiration and Oblique Strategies is a deck of cards that he and artist Peter Schmidt developed to help them out of creative roadblocks in the studio. The cards are out of print, but you can now use them on a computer or make your own set from these on-line resources.
http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies - Gregory Taylor's site dedicated to Oblique Strategies
http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/oblique s.html - links to virtual versions and an extensive Eno site www.asahi-net.or.jp/~rf6t-tyfk/oblique.html - java version online
http://tribble.dreamhost.com/pilot.html.com - Lonnie Foster's program to run the deck on a Palm Pilot