Anybody following the progress of my Pacting (which I imagine would be a number that rhymes with "beer-o") would have noticed something about the year of 2018: no CreativePact undertaken by Adam Jansch.

AnnualPact underway! Fabulously aware that I've had a recently refurbished Akai S5000 sitting in my studio unused for months, this week I fired it up and got sampling.

A continuation of working with the S5000, and specifically the Bath Wurlitzer sample I captured last week. With that I created two new sample programs which are both pads (an example of one attached below).

This week I expanded my equipment usage beyond the S5000 to two other pieces yet to see any use in my studio. Good news: one was cool; bad news: one was not.

One thing unified this week's creative action: the golden flute of James Galway.

More sampling. This time from a George Gershwin LP I had transferred the week before. While it played I made a mental note of the end of side A having some choice material, and headed straight there.

The title explains it all. A wrench was placed in my week in the form of being ill. But really that's a flimsy excuse, as my creativity sessions occurred before that.

This week I switched tack to focus on a well-progressed project that, if you have any experience of my previous CreativePacts, you will have heard of.

Another disrupted week, but I tried to make the most of it (and along the way passed a milestone).

Following from last week, I continued working on the track Farthest Trex. It was nice to spend some time focussed on one thing.

I do. Working on another Dorian Zoyd track called Polymer.

This week I switched it up again and plunged into some Maschining.

I'll be honest, I don't remember what I did on my first creativity session this week.

As promised last week I spent some time lyric writing this week.

I did manage some creativity this week, but not much. (Time was taken up by sorting out the app sore submission of the latest version of TapeLister, my cassette prototyping app for Mac.)

Another slender week, creativity-wise. But it was some good creativity, so that brings it back.

This week I continued on from last week by working further on "wurlinoise". This consisted of separating out the two main parts in the timeline, which changed the structure of piece to A-B; after that, both sections were developed sonically.

A quick one this week, as time was tight. I did a session of lyric writing, on "Farthest Trex", which was solid. I was able to make good progress on the second section of the song; this probably needs a session or two more to solidify.

You thought last week's post was quick. This one will be even quicker. Because I did another lyrics session which wasn't particularly notable for anything.

Audio! I did some audio this week! It is attached! This makes this post more interesting than of late.

The time has come. I've realised the real truth is that I just don't have time for creativity at the moment. I've tried to push a creative line this year, but I don't have a single project strong enough for me to continue weekly.

It's been a couple of months, but a completely free afternoon allowed me some vocal recording time. And the target project? Farthest Trex.

It has been quite a while, but I did log some hours this week building loops in the S5000. Of those, the one that stood out is this one, created from a recording from an LP of 30s music.

One year, one failed AnnualPact. But I did finish the year by opening Maschine and starting on some new ‑otron material.