# React-Music: My Talk at the React Sydney Meetup

Published on Thursday, September 15, 2016

Last Monday, I took a leap of faith and made my first public speaking appearance at a Sydney tech meetup. The event in questions was [React Sydney](https://www.meetup.com/React-Sydney), a monthly event where tickets go like hot cakes and waiting lists get notoriously long.

The topic I came to talk about was React-Music, an awesome open-source project that lets you create beats with ReactJS. React-Music is a creation by [Ken Wheeler](https://twitter.com/ken_wheeler), director of open-source at [FormidableLabs](https://formidable.com/).

The talk went really well, considering it was heavily relying on live demos, which could have gone horribly wrong… :)

Here are links to the [slides of the talk](https://slides.com/simonswiss/react-music), as well as to the [github repo with the live demos](https://github.com/simonswiss/react-music) presented during the talk.

### Tweets from the Event
Everyone super happy after [@simonswiss](https://x.com/simonswiss) 's up-beat (ha ha) talk on [@kenwheeler](https://x.com/kenwheeler) 's React Music: [https://github.com/FormidableLabs/react-music…](https://github.com/FormidableLabs/react-music)

hot reloading builds up the song as [@simonswiss](https://x.com/simonswiss) plugs components into [@reactjs](https://x.com/reactjs) beats to create Billy Jean by MJ

I've teamed up with [Kent C. Dodds](https://twitter.com/kentcdodds) to teach Tailwind CSS (and more) as a partner instructor on the [Epic Web](https://www.epicweb.dev/workshops/pixel-perfect-figma-to-tailwind) platform!

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