I am a retired systems engineer and have good familiarity with GNU/Linux and a Raspberry Pi 3b+ where I discovered Sonic Pi. I also read and write music as a hobby, and have classical training on a number of instruments (primarily woodwinds) and in composition.

I took to Sonic Pi intuitively and immediately and find it to be just about the most exciting piece of pi-ware I’ve run across thus far.

I’m very interested in using OSC to control Sonic Pi from Android.

I have been a netizen since before .com came online, and so have various blogs and accounts which are mostly unrelated, but which I may share here if I wind up writing about Sonic Pi.

I have 25 years of programming experience in a number of languages on and on platforms from Zilog Z80 running CP/M to my current Raspberry Pi running Raspian.

Unfortunately, Ruby and Python are not among the languages I know, yet, so I’m not trying to contribute code, although I may be up for some debugging, since I’m leaning both those, anyway, and stepping code is a good way to learn, in my experience.

Finally, I am very interested in configuring a Raspberry Pi to run stand-alone, kiosk-style, as a stand-alone app, with as little of the rest of OS installed as possible. The memory constraints of the Pi make that idea attractive.

Likewise, I’m interested to see what performance enhancements can be achieved by running Sonic Pi on a small cluster.

AND I’m interested in manipulating the I/O streams to output a real-time audio stream over TCP/IP.