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 Ireland Information Guide knowledgebase on electronic and computer music. This will include making sure all relevant articles are written regarding:
In addition, related topics should be revisited to provide adequate link coverage:
As this balloons concurrent topics in electronic music will be covered, e.g.
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 (http://emfinstitute.emf.org/bigtimeline/1900s.html), 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.
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