slippery chicken documentation - workshops

## Workshops

The workshops are free and should be useful to experienced composers with a variety of backgrounds and styles. We do recommend you bring your own laptop (with slippery chicken already installed) but computers will also be available to participants.

###### Edinburgh, UK, July 6-8 2012

2pm July 6th to 5pm July 8th.
Sound Lab, 1st Floor, Alison House, 12 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9DF.

###### ZKM Karlsuhe, Germany, July 19-21 2012

2pm July 19th to 5pm July 21st.
Lorenzstraße 19, D - 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany.

### Registering

Please register your interest in attending these workshops by:

1. signing up to the slippery chicken Google Group
2. entering your name and availability on the doodle poll:
   Edinburgh :::::: ZKM Karlsruhe

All announcements regarding the workshops will be made via the Google Group. We therefore recommend that you configure your membership of this group to include receiving emails of group posts. You can do this by clicking on the "My membership" button once at the Google Group slippery chicken page.

The workshops will be limited to 20 people. Selection will be made based on who signs up to the doodle poll first and who is available for the full three days. Please update the poll if your circumstances change and you are no longer able to attend any or all of the days.

### Bursaries

Small bursaries will be available to help pay travel and/or accommodation costs for a limited number of participants who don't live or study in the vicinity of the workshops. If you wish to apply for one of these please email Michael Edwards a short description of:

1. why you want to attend
2. your experience of computer music and/or algorithmic composition
3. your experience as a composer
4. why you need the financial support to attend.

### Getting ready for the workshops

The slippery chicken workshops will involve working in the general programming language Common Lisp. We recommend that you familiarise yourself with Lisp and install slippery chicken on your own computer before attending the workshops. There are links to several Lisp implementations on the installation page, and some other resources can be found here:

- Peter Seibel's online book Practical Common Lisp
- The online Common Lisp reference work Common Lisp HyperSpec at CMU
- The reference work Common Lisp the Language, available in many formats