Music Thinking Jam Cards

JAM CARDS

JAM CARDS an innovative approach to create meaningful collaborations

Inspirational card set for change makers, innovators, pattern recognisers, transformers, and natural collaborators.

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How to Play

There are many ways to have a jam card session, and you can use them individually or with a group of people. Recognise patterns in your life and work while playing with serendipity and strategy.

To get started try the following variations or make your own rules right away. | SERENDIPITY LAB | SOLO | PLAY ALONE | 30 - 45 minutes | Improvise like a jazz musician and flip through the cards. Use your headphones. Try the sonic trigger

to hear different music pieces. Find the card that is most interesting, exciting, disturbing, boring or most resonating. What does this mean to you? Be open for the unexpected. Make notes. | MIX AND MATCH | DUO | PLAY WITH A PARTNER | 60 minutes | Play like a DJ and explore, make combinations and find the right collection of cards, trigger questions and

music examples. What could be a latent need of your audience? Start with the empathy cue and select cards that highlight this cue. Listen to the sound samples and make notes. Share the notes with your partner.

Look for patterns. Make an experience wall or mood board of the findings. | STRATEGY JAM | ENSEMBLE | PLAY TOGETHER | 45 - 120 minutes | Think like a composer and start with one of the six cue cards. What is the essential starting point for you

or your team? Let everybody individually (silent brainstorm mode) write the cue on a post-it or paper that he

or she thinks should be the starting point. Why is this the starting point? You can optionally start this session with the above mentioned Serendipity Lab. Place the chosen cue card on the table. Find cards that contain this cue. Share with your partners how the music examples fit together and why, this will bring emotions in the game and will open up sharing of different tastes, preferences and empathy.

Do the same procedure with another cue card. What connects the cues? Describe the connections.

Make notes of what is said during the session or record with your smartphone. You might start with the

‘classical’ dynamic of the music thinking framework to spread the cards. Start with Jammin’, then Empathy,

then Personality and end with Remix. If you change the dynamics, take pictures from the different situations to see later how your discussion evolved and changed.

Scan the code with the Spotify app. Go to ‘search’. Click on the ‘camera icon’ on the right side of the search field above. Tip: close your eyes and use headphones.

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ACTIVITY

WHAT ACTION COULD YOU DO WITHOUT ANY PLANNING?

DO NOT FEAR MISTAKES. THERE ARE NONE.

MILES DAVIS

FREEDOM

HOW CAN YOU FREE YOUR MIND?

DANCE FIRST. THINK LATER. IT’S THE NATURAL ORDER. SAMUEL BECKETT

HOLISTIC VIEW

WHAT IS YOUR TOTAL JOURNEY?

AN OPERA BEGINS LONG BEFORE THE CURTAIN GOES UP AND ENDS LONG AFTER IT HAS COME DOWN. IT STARTS IN MY IMAGINATION, IT BECOMES MY LIFE, AND IT STAYS PART OF MY LIFE LONG AFTER I’VE LEFT THE OPERA HOUSE. MARIA CALLAS

ITERATION

WHAT PARTS WILL GET BETTER WHEN THEY ARE REPEATED?

THERE IS JOY IN REPETITION. PRINCE

REHEARSAL

Pictures taken by the author except Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (entrainment, open mind, freedom, identification, influence, inspiration, love, model, peace, personality, possibilities, purpose, understanding ), Wikimedia Commons (conundrum, Expo 1958 Philips Pavillion by Wouter Hagens), Voyager Golden Record Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech (journey).

Every reasonable attempt has been made to identify owners of copyright.

Any errors or omissions brought to the publisher’s attention will be corrected in subsequent editions.

ARE YOU SERIOUSLY PREPARED?

I PREPARE MYSELF FOR REHEARSALS LIKE I WOULD FOR MARRIAGE. MARIA CALLAS

SIMPLICITY

WHAT LEVEL OF COMPLEXITY IS GOING ON?

ONE CHORD IS FINE. TWO CHORDS ARE PUSHING IT. THREE CHORDS AND YOU’RE INTO JAZZ. LOU REED

JAM CARDS Music Thinking is a method to create meaningful collaborations.

Music as a universal principle has the power to connect everyone. The variety of cultures, systems, styles, instruments, emotions, and their underlying patterns and structures can be applied and used for business, society, and individuals. Music Thinking is the quest for the ultimate remix of empathy & strategy, plan & performance, thoughtfulness & playfulness, inspiration & transpiration, business & the arts.

The Jam Cards consist of 38 inspiration cards and six cue cards. All inspiration cards have a keyword, a visual and a sonic trigger, a trigger question, an inspirational quote, and six cues that connect with the Music Thinking Framework.

ACTIVITY

keyword visual trigger

WHAT ACTION COULD YOU DO WITHOUT ANY PLANNING?

trigger question

DO NOT FEAR MISTAKES. THERE ARE NONE. MILES DAVIS

inspirational quote music thinking cues

sonic trigger

You can use the cards from a strategic point of view, knowing what you want or need and a serendipity approach open for everything that will happen. ‘Music Thinking’ lets people work and play together in a new way with inspirations from the rich world of music.

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