Ray Rischpater, KF6GPE – Page 2 – Ray's remarks on ham radio, programming, music, and writing.

Speaking at BayCon 2019 this morning!

I’m pleased to say that I am one of the speakers lined up to give a talk at BayCon 2019 here in Silicon Valley this morning. I’ll be giving the talk “APRS Turns 35. What’s Next“, which looks at the current state of APRS, especially mobile and pedestrian mobile APRS. I’ll post a link to the audio or video of the talk when it’s available. If you want to use the materials as a basis for your own talk, you can get it at GitHub and make a fork.

#Jamuary Day 27

Obviously, this is not my composition, just my performance. I’ve done one other on SoundCloud, and tomorrow night I’ll probably do this on the OP-Z. I don’t know why, but his entire series ofcompositions from 1960 fascinate me. I’ve got a #jamuary track from the 24th, too, that I need to upload.

#Jamuary Day 22

#Jamuary Day 21

#Jamuary Day 20

#Jamuary Day 19

Day 18 was a travel day. After 18 hours awake, when I got home I just didn’t have it in me. Day 19 is on our Steinway, which I haven’t practiced in over a week, and it shows.

#Jamuary Days 16 and 17

These are not jams, this is me trying to understand the tape feature of the OP-Z.

#Jamuary, Day 15

This track was a lot harder for me because I was queuing up each transition manually. I’m starting to begin to get a feel for what “playing live” on the OP-Z is like once you get tracks set. It’s fun, but challenging at this tempo with my fat fingers!

Now that I’ve reached the halfway point in the month with this, I’m seeing some trends in my work. It’s easy to start to get stuck in a rut, especially because I’m timid about trying new things — like today’s sketch. I had in my mind clearly what I wanted to do, and I think with this sketch I got close. It’s all pretty basic looping stuff, but I’m triggering the muting and unmuting of each track by hand, and in fact this is two patterns (one without the running high hats, one with) with different tracks in each pattern muted. It’s going to take some practice before I can do that kind of manipulation quickly and in-tempo — I have a lot more regard now for the other OP-Z players I’m seeing on Instagram and YouTube!

#Jamuary, Day 14

New and improved! Not really, just yesterday with a bass line and some percussion. Still not really feeling the #jamuary vibe with the trip, but I’ll stick with it anyway!

#Jamuary, Day 13

Did this yesterday, after flying nonstop from SFO to ZRH and only getting a couple of hours of sleep. This couldn’t decide where it was, and neither could I for the most part.