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Scope issues

Do we want this to be on "computer music," or on "music technology?"

Goals

The goals of this project are

  • to create a central place to coordinate writing and editing articles on computer music
  • to create a hierarchy of categories in which to place these articles
  • make sure that the Wikipedia category hierarchy for computer music mirrors ours, and that the CM articles are placed into the right categories
  • to unify the appearances of articles falling into various computer music categories

To-do list

  • Main focus now is creation of the categories/hierarchy/taxonomy to better organize our efforts.

Hierarchy of categories and articles

There is no perfect taxonomy for computer music. However, I've read [this article] from Computer Music Journal, and I've used the ideas in there to create the following hierarchy. Since CMJ is one of the main journals for this area, I think it's a good idea to consider their taxonomy. Naturally, in the one below, I've had to add some things that wouldn't appear as CMJ articles -- things like biographies, research centers, etc. Feel free to add or change as you see fit.

old stuff is everything below here

WikiProject Computer music

Vaguely organized by Rev3rend and gewang . Please add/expand as you see fit.

The plan is currently to solidify and expand the wikipedia knowledgebase on electronic and computer music. This will include making sure all relevant articles are written regarding:

  • Computer Music Techniques
    • Synthesis (Languages, Techniques, Software, Hardware)
    • Signal Processing (Languages, Techniques, Software, Hardware)
    • Composition (Languages, Techniques, Software, Hardware)
    • Recording Technology (Techniques, Software, Hardware)
    • Performance Technology (Techniques, Software, Hardware)
  • Computer Music Personages
    • Composers
    • Computer Scientists / Engineers / Inventors
    • Centers / Institutes / Scenes
  • Computer Music History / Genres
    • History of both art and technology involved
    • Delineation of different schools of composition / performance based on techniques

In addition, related topics should be revisited to provide adequate link coverage:

  • Psychoacoustics
    • Auditory scene analysis
    • Speech perception and analysis
  • Telecommunications (History, Techniques)

As this balloons concurrent topics in electronic music will be covered, e.g.

  • Electronic music techniques
  • Electronic music hardware
  • Electronic music places
  • Electronic music people
  • Electronic music history / Genres

For the large topics above some sort of meta-page with a list of links should be made for each major item (e.g. List of Sound Synthesis Techniques or something like that). I'm less worried about a unified format than getting the information up, at this stage.

For the historical pieces (in both sections) a unified timeline format should be proposed and inserted. For right now, I suggest we base it on the decadic EMF TimeLine, which looks good enough for a starting point. I'll make something up and we can see if it works.

Be really careful to check for coverage on a lot of the technical topics before you start an article, as they might already be there. This is especially true since the academic/commercial or hardware/software or American/European name for a technique might be different. Add links from your term to the pre-existing one when an article already exists.

Note that this project is, for want of a better description, about computer music (and the wider field of electronic art music as it has existed in the past century). Articles dealing with the popular definition of electronic music (e.g. electronica) should peacefully co-exist with these without creating too many headaches (wishful thinking, perhaps). Articles dealing with use of computer music / electronic music technology within the framework of popular music and popular culture should be added, and cross-referencing should be encouraged to shine as much light on these new articles as possible (c.f. Radiohead / Paul Lansky). In addition, many figures from popular culture are for all intents and purposes computer music composers in their own right (this is especially true of more avant-garde producers, e.g. Aphex Twin). There is no hard line here, so people should err firmly on the side of inclusivity and take disputes to the talk page.

Here are some topics we should work on. Add as you see fit. We should probably throw these into categories at some point to match the proposed ones above.

audio synthesis

algorithmic composition

DSP

computer music controllers

computer music history

languages and libraries

places

psychoacoustic

audio analysis

misc

people

Hello...hello...

Is anyone in here? Joe I 10:56, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi Joe. What's happening? PKirlin 16:29, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey, nothin new :) Just wanted to make sure someone was listening before I started jabbering :) Anyways, I don't know to much bout the technical stuff, I basically just use score writers, Cakewalk and Igor. But I'm willing to do maintenence and stuff. Have you started on the hierarchy yet? Joe I 03:29, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Project Directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:

and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 21:31, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now put the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 00:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:55, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

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