Join Sonic Pi's creator Sam Aaron and learn to express yourself with code. This course will teach you the basics of live coding your own performances and compositions using the powerful live coding software Sonic Pi. We will learn how to trigger powerful synthesisers, manipulate pre-recorded samples, add expressive studio effects all by writing simple words. No prior knowledge of music or coding is necessary to take this course and you will finish it with a firm grounding in both ready to start your own live coding adventure. Sonic Pi is a free code-based music creation and performance tool that targets both education and professional musicians. Using Sonic Pi is is possible for complete beginners to code fresh beats, driving bass lines and shimmering synth riffs. All this whilst learning core computer science concepts such as functions, variables, loops, data structures and algorithms.