Creative Code for Music, Art & IoT

Creative Code Meetup - July 2025

Agenda:

• 6:00 pm: CheckIn & Networking
• 6:30 pm: Welcome & Sponsor Message
• 6:35 pm: James Holden - "Benny is not a DAW". Benny is a modular open source software playground for making live music, which seamlessly integrates hardware and software, MIDI and audio. It was created by James for his own performances and now is available for anyone to use.
• 7:15 pm: Cheryl Hui - Reimagining Music-Making: Accessibility, Collaboration, and Design through Harmonix. A series of accessible, digitally fabricated instruments designed for intuitive and inclusive music-making. Blending design, interactivity, and sound, we are going to explore how emerging tools like 3D printing, sensors, and minimalist design can empower anyone, regardless of background, to create and connect through music. It will make you rethink what it means to play, compose, and collaborate in the age of creative technology.
• 7:45 pm: Masaru Mizuochi - Burying apples for creativity. Masaru Mizuochi will share his journey on creating artworks born from his research into creative coding. The presentation is full of diverse perspectives and performances, ranging from a piece that finds human individuality in a huge amount of video footage to his latest work, inspired by Diffusion Model, in which apples are buried in soil.
• 8: 15 pm: Suyash Joshi - Sonification of IoT Sensor Data. Suyash will present how he converted real time IoT Data from Raspberry Pi, Arduino and smart phone sensors into music and visuals that respond to interactive input using creative coding techniques.
• 8:45 pm: Wrap up
• 9:00 pm: Head to nearby pub for food/drinks and more chat!

Speakers:
James Holden is an electronic musician and tinkerer who has worn many hats across his twenty year musical career: producer, remixer, DJ, record label boss, synth maestro, band leader, mix engineer, software developer and all round jack of all vaguely musical trades

Wing Hei Cheryl Hui, graduated with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a Master's degree in Computational Arts. Renowned for merging music and technology, Hui creates instruments using physical computing, exploring themes of control and surrender.

Masaru Mizuochi is an artist and researcher with a background in theatre performance, working for Sony Japan and this year as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Creative Computing, University of the Arts London. He looks at coding from various perspectives and explores the connections between art, research and innovation.

Suyash Joshi is a creative technologist, evangelist and and experienced software engineer who enjoys hacking with IoT sensors. He obtained Masters at Goldsmiths and Bachelors at University of Michigan and is the organiser of the Creative Coding & AI meetup.

Sponsor: Big thanks to Ramen Space for hosting us at their wonderful co-working space.

Call for Future Sponsors & Presenters
We’re planning future Creative Code Meetups and are looking for the following, please message the organizer or comment below if you’re interested as:

• 🎤 Presenter: Talks, demos, installation art, live performance etc
• 🤝 Sponsor: Venue, refreshments, or support