Perry R. Cook

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Perry R. Cook (b. 1955) is an American computer music researcher and professor of computer science and music at Princeton University. He is also the head of the Princeton Sound Lab.

Perry Cook has helped to significantly advance the areas of physical modeling, singing voice synthesis, principles of computer music controller design, and also works extensively with audio analysis and real-time computer music programming languages and systems. He (and later with Gary Scavone) authored the Synthesis Toolkit (STK), and with Ge Wang, authored the ChucK programming language. He is also a co-founder, with Dan Trueman, of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk).