Perry R. Cook (born 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). Professor 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).
External links
- Perry Cook homepage at Princeton
- The Princeton SoundLab
- Synthesis Toolkit
- ChucK programming language
- PLOrk Princeton Laptop Orchestra
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