Perry R. Cook
Perry R. Cook (born November 28, 1955) is an American computer music researcher and professor emeritus of computer science and music at Princeton University. He is also the head of the Princeton Sound Lab.
Cook has worked in the areas of physical modeling, singing voice synthesis, principles of computer music controller design, audio analysis and real-time computer music programming languages and systems, and has written a number of books on these subjects.[1][2] Together with Gary Scavone, he authored the Synthesis Toolkit and with Ge Wang the ChucK programming language. He is also a co-founder, with Dan Trueman, of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk). Cook was an invited keynote speaker at NIME-07, held in New York City in June, 2007. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2008) and the Guggenheim Foundation (2003).
Cook is also an avid conch shell musician, including the ancient conch-shell Peruvian instrument known as pututus.[3]
His adviser was Julius Orion Smith III at Stanford.[4]
External links
- Official website
- Princeton SoundLab
- Synthesis Toolkit
- Princeton Laptop Orchestra
- ChucK programming language
References
- ↑ P. Cook, ed. Music, Cognition and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics, MIT Press, 1999
- ↑ P. Cook, Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications, A.K. Peters Press, 2002
- ↑ Cevallos, Marissa, "3,000-Year-Old Conch Trumpets Play Again", Wired Magazine, Nov. 19, 2010.
- ↑ https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/
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