1 · Before you start

1. Get something to record with. A phone is fine.
2. Decide how strange this session may get, and hold it throughout: things that could have happened, things that have not happened, or things that could not happen.

2 · Each round

1. Press record. Before you look at anything.
2. Draw a round. Four cards. The shade card is the strange one; read the other three as ordinary.
3. In one unbroken take, say what the thing is, who it is for and when they use it. Then make it.
4. Stuck? Swap one card, once. The discarded card does not come back. If it still defeats you, write the prompt down and reshuffle the deck.
5. Write down the four cards and the recording number.
6. Each round, play back every take, in order. Can the new one live alongside the others? If not, change it, or change an earlier one.
7. Shuffle and draw again.

3 · When you stop

Play six rounds. Then ask:

• Does this create future possibility, or foreclose it?
• Is the sound recognizable enough to be taken seriously?
• Or, is it wrong enough to provoke?
• Pick one artifact. Name a person who would object to it, and why.
• Does the set of sounds hold together as one world?

Playing in a group (2–6)

Take turns clockwise, and you cannot pass. On your turn you draw, say what the thing is and make it; the others may add to the description once you are done.

Two changes. Discussion replaces playback, so instead of listening back you argue about whether the new sound can live with the others. And the card reading sound with another player means exactly that, rather than overdubbing yourself.