i've mostly been writing snippets and that's all i've had time for, really. 

i still have this feeling that i shouldn't be doing this because i actually do have a lot of other stuff on my plate this year.  work has really ratcheted up lately and is suffering a little bit because of the time that could be used on work but is spent on WB noodling instead.

on the other hand, it's somewhat liberating to write music with literally NO expectation of having to produce a fully-formed piece by any means.  in a way, WB this year has very much become for me a sonic scratchpad -- just in the adopting of the discipline of getting any musical idea down, no matter how larval;  and i do feel better for having created the piece, as opposed to not having had created it at all.

i gotta say though, KORG Gadget has been a Godsend.  it's become my go-to tool for the "oh crap i only have an hour to do this" moments where i want to come up with something decent in the least number of steps.  in WB2014 i had no such tool to fall back on, and my year ended up being a lot more stressful as a result.

music you don't want to listen to

- i got an iPad this year, so i'll probably spend time figuring out different ways to use it for DAW-type stuff, recording, mangling etc.

- still don't feel like i'm adept enough at most desktop DAWs so i'll probably steep myself more in them

- will try to establish reusable workflows for live recording and/or sound design

- increased focus on getting more confident with mastering, multiband compression, cleaner mixes, etc.

already did the full 52 last time, so i'm not feeling as much pressure to satisfy EVERY week.

hope you guys like 52 weeks of pink noise

it's been a crazy year - some weeks' results surprising, some weeks disappointing, but always educational.  this is coming from someone who used to take YEARS to finish ONE song. 

overall, i'm actually quite proud of the average quality of my output -- some of the tracks were painfully short but i still tried my best to not phone it in and i can name very few passages that are "horribly embarrassing" enough to the point that i regretted venturing there.

thanks everyone for providing constant inspiration and encouragement by sticking it through.  thanks especially to Phil Harmonic for being so forgiving of my frequent last-minuteness!

thanks so much!  i feel quite compelled to send you a Christmas present for all you've done this year.