Produced by the Peter Norton family (with the blessing of Brian Eno) as Christmas gifts for his friends and colleagues (i.e. No conclusive evidence has surfaced as to its existence Individually numbered, and signed by Eno and Schmidt Īvailable through Eno's record label at the time, Opal Records Īdvertised for sale in the EG Newsletter and elsewhere Īlain D'Hooghe translator produced in association with an exhibition 'More Than Nothing' by Schmidt & Eno at the Paul Ide Gallery in Brussels, February 1980 Ī rumoured edition. And when my students get a mental block, I immediately direct them to that wall.' Editions and variations Edition Carlos Alomar, who worked with Eno and Bowie on all these albums, was a fan of using the cards, later saying 'at the Center for Performing Arts at the Stevens Institute of Technology, where I teach, on the wall are Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies cards. They were used again on Bowie's 1995 album Outside, which Eno was involved with as a writer, producer and musician. Stories suggest they were used during the recording of instrumentals on 'Heroes' such as 'Sense of Doubt' and were used more extensively on Lodger ('Fantastic Voyage', 'Boys Keep Swinging', 'Red Money'). They were most famously used by Eno during the recording of David Bowie's Berlin triptych of albums ( Low, 'Heroes', Lodger). In May 2013 a limited edition of 500 boxes, in burgundy rather than black, was issued. The number and content of the cards vary according to the edition.
With public interest in the cards undiminished, in 2001 Eno once again produced a new set of Oblique Strategies cards. Eno's decision to revisit the cards and his collaboration with Norton in revising them is described in detail in his 1996 book A Year with Swollen Appendices. Sixteen years later software pioneer Peter Norton convinced Eno to let him create a fourth edition as Christmas gifts for his friends (not for sale, although they occasionally come up at auction). The set went through three limited edition printings before Schmidt suddenly died in early 1980, after which the card decks became rather rare and expensive. There was a significant overlap between the two projects, and so, in late 1974, Schmidt and Eno combined them into a single pack of cards and offered them for general sale. Eno, who had known Schmidt since the late 1960s, had been pursuing a similar project himself, which he had handwritten onto a number of bamboo cards and given the name 'Oblique Strategies' in 1974.
In 1970, Peter Schmidt created 'The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts', a box containing 55 sentences letterpress printed onto disused prints that accumulated in his studio, which is still in Eno's possession.
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