TODO

There's loads to do on the WikiDelia. If you'd like to help out, you can

• email me for a free wikidelia-editing account
• work on one of the non-wiki-writing items and mail me the results
• make a donation to ensure the WikiDelia's continued existence in the future. Every $6 extends its life by a month.

Writing the wikidelia

• Insert the entry dates from the TRW entries into the Chronology from 6604 on.
• Insert the TX dates from the TRW entries into the Chronology from 6322 on.
• Check that all the works listed in the PRS records have entries as pieces.
• Copy the mood descriptions from DD150638 to the relevant pieces' pages in Electrosonic
• Process the Sound on Sound article
• Transcribe interviews from The Delian Mode (film)
• Transcribe the poems proposed for Poets in Prison (or the ones that Delia appears to have used)
• Process the Delia Archive gallery on 7 inch cinema
• Process David Butler's post on createdigitalmusic.com about the archive
• Process The BBC Radiophonic Workshop: The First 25 Years and copy details to the pieces' pages
• Process the Soundhouse interview from "Doctor Who" onwards, transcribing into the Chronology and the pieces' pages
• Include the article Delia's recipe of strange sounds
• Separate out all the pieces in O Fat White Woman into their own pages
• Correlate tracks in Work is a Four Letter Word with ESL104
• EMS synthi disc pics and audio from Synthi Albums on thesynthi.de
• Add pages for other BBCRW members who overlap with Delia's time there (from [1])
  • Margaret Etall 1963
  • Janet Gibson 1965
  • Bridget Marrow 1965
  • Glynis Jones 1972
• Transcribe the other Delian fragments from These Hopeful Machines.
• Add list of frames and something from booklet (image) for Paolozzi
• Put wikilinks in the PRS records pages and check the publisher is in the Copyright section for each piece.
• Sort out the various versions of Doctor Who from the entries in TRW. See also Doctor_Who_at_the_BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop_-_Volume_1:_The_Early_Years for canonical track names. Make separate pages for each?
• Add photos for 49 Deodar Road
• Process the full interview texts with Mark Ayres, Brian Hodgson and Peter Zinovieff on These Hopeful Machines website.
• Figure out which ESL104 tracks are used where in Work is a Four Letter Work.
• Add a one-line summary to each of the entries in Medialink library#Files.
• Add the identifiable high-res scans from the Medialink library to their relevant pages' info.
• Transcribe the lyrics for the 4 pieces of Amor Dei.
• Process the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry
• Add availability entries to the pages for items on TRW 4 and TRW 5.

Research

• Check Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life book by Sofka Zinovieff for any mentions. See Unit Delta Plus
• Try to date the Listeners' Corner interview
• Find out more about the RTE broadcast of Macbeth (1970)
• Which TV programme contains footage from Tom-Tom?
• Make a list of tapes "for Germany" in the Radiophonic Database and ask if Bayerische Rundfunk still have any of them.
• See if the uploader of BBC Schools programme [2] has any programmes that Delia created music for
• Check [3] for radio programmes

Document recovery

• Retrieve The Times article from 16th January 1968 reviewing Pot Pourri at the Queen Elizabeth Hall concert.
• Find the article about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop published in the magazine "Tatlers" on 12th May 1965.
• Get a copy of James Percival's thesis from Manchester University library

Papers to transcribe

• DD141714: 9 Dec 1969 from TSgt Joe E. Salazar to BBCRW about availability of Dreams and other RW music
• DD141820: 15/6/70 R.T.Doyle to Delia about LPREC25M, Dave Brubeck and more
• DD161802: Delia's notes for F. Y. in T.
• Finish transcribing Radiophonic Workshop Television and Radio Commitments 1970
• Figure out what the score fragments are on the reverse of the manuscript for Science and Health

Scores to typeset

The following pieces are only known from their scores, so typesetting one will resurrect an otherwise dead piece.

• Science Serves the Arts
• CH3NH4
• Arctic

Audio to recover

• Search the British Library Drama and literature recordings for BBC Radio and RSC audio recordings

BBC Radio programmes

• The Death of a Jelly Baby broadcast on the Third Programme on 29th May 1964 at 8.45pm and repeated on the 14th June 1964.
• The Listeners Corner interview
• The Coming of the Car episode of BBC Radio for Schools series "The Modern World", broadcast 9th November 1966.
• The BBC has Oram interview quotes in its recording of The World This Weekend: 10 Years of The Radiophonic Workshop (1972) Also on TRW 6843. See if the episode has any mention of Delia or her work.
• The Afternoon Shift, BBC Radio 4, 1997-07-31 or 28th March 1997, included on DD003 together with another BBC programme containing Delia's work.
• Home This Afternoon series title music from post-1967.

The British Library has a collection of BBC Radio recordings but "The BBC Sound Archive Catalogue can currently only be accessed in the British Library's Humanities - floor 2 reading room, where printed catalogues or microfiche (shelfmark HUS025.348209421) detailing pre-1992 holdings can be browsed." although "The online catalogue details a significant proportion of the Library's radio holdings"

BBC TV programmes

• Primary School Mathematics Programme 2, 27th September 1965.
• Find Ape and Essence, BBC TV's The Wednesday Play series 1, episode 61, broadcast 18 May 1966.
• "Will the real Mr Hogarth...", 12th December 1971

In libraries

• The Evenings of Certain Lives excerpt on cassette Third words: The Radio Feature
• An ABC in Sound from one of the cassettes it was published on.
• The Pop Scene at the National Archive, Kew, UK or the BFI.

From institutions

• Sound track to Een Van Die Dagen from Madelon Hookyaas, the filmmuseum.nl or whoever screened them at Glasgow CCA
• See if Bayerische Rundfunk still have a copy of the programme based on interviews at Maida Vale Munich Radio interview and the signature tune for their news programme Radio Munich
• It Was a Solid Killing Match on 16mm film at the Imperial War Museum
• The Pop Scene from the cassette at The National Archive, UK.
• See if KRAB.FM have a copy of The Autocrats in their archives.

From Manchester

• DD003: Third Words: The Radio Feature including Le Pont Mirabeau.
• DD085: The Listeners Corner interview from 1997.
• DD215: "Wildlife, Argentina"
• DD221: "Angela's Ballet 1 master"
• DD263: An off-air recording of most of the programme about Cubism containing Le Pont Mirabeau

Listening

• Watch Doctor Who: The Macra Terror to see if there's anything of Delia's other than Chromophone Band
• Watch Doctor Who: The Daleks to see if there's anything of Delia's other than the theme music. (See Beyond the Sun)
• Listen to Free Thinking episode about the BBCRW MP3

Misc

• Get a digital copy of the Attic Tapes and the Ayres hoard.
• Delia's music for Johnny's Jaunts published on cassette or from off-air recordings.

Audio Processing

• Add new version of audio for The Naked Sun
• Listen to the woman's hour 20080725 programme with Dick Mills and Elizabeth Parker.
• Add makeup tracks for Amor Dei from Special Sound at http://www.oup.com/us/specialsound with user Music2 pass Book4416
• Extract fragments of I.E.E.100 from Wee Have Also Sound Houses
• Identify and extract audio from Duffer
• Extract electronic noises from The Cracksman
• Make public torrents of thebox.bz/zxcv.fm's video files now that they've closed down
• Compare our audio for Radio Solent and Dance from Noah with EMS FLEXI 1 from thesynthi.de
• Rip the makeups from dd-day-2014-trailer
• Compare audio of Ways of Seeing from youtube with that from torrent
• Include extracts from Doctor Who: Inferno

Spectrograms

• Do better spectrograms where CD, FLAC or WAV audio exists:
  • BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective
  • BBC Radiophonic Music
• Re-do all spectrograms using fixed sndfile-spectrogram. Better, make it batch-oriented to be able to redo them at will.

System Administration

• Web server: See if the Score mediawiki extension works when using mediawiki 1.18 to typeset score fragments.
• Learn how to make automated edits using the Mediawiki API by modifying their example client code
• Make a torrent of The Bagman
• Remove the stupid "dangerous file" message when downloading a torrent