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Dev tools · August 24, 2014

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Slippery Chicken Algorithmic Composition – Open Source Lisp

Slippery Chicken Algorithmic Composition – Open Source Lisp launched on August 24, 2014 with 18 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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Slippery Chicken is an open-source Lisp tool for algorithmic composition that generates music through code. It is designed for composers and musicians who want to create pieces by writing algorithms rather than traditional notation. The software runs from a Lisp prompt, typically within Emacs using SLIME, and includes video tutorials demonstrating its fundamental features and basic workflows.

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Video tutorials on slippery chicken are hosted on the slipperychickenvids YouTube channel and are embedded below. In this first online video tutorial, Michael Edwards provides a background to algorithmic composition in general and discusses slippery chicken's fundamental features in this context. The music from the opening is taken from the work "altogether disproportionate", composed by Michael Edwards using slippery chicken in 2010. This tutorial covers the basics of starting slippery chicken from the Lisp prompt, focusing on the use of Emacs and SLIME. The music from the opening is taken from the work "who says this, saying it's me", composed by Michael Edwards using slippery chicken in…from michael-edwards.org

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