Perry R. Cook
Encyclopedia
Perry R. Cook 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. 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.
His adviser was Julius Orion Smith III at Stanford.
Computer music
Computer music is a term that was originally used within academia to describe a field of study relating to the applications of computing technology in music composition; particularly that stemming from the Western art music tradition...
researcher and professor emeritus of computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
and music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. He is also the head of the Princeton Sound Lab
Princeton Sound Lab
The Princeton Sound Lab is a research laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University, in collaboration with the Department of Music...
.
Cook has worked in the areas of physical modeling, singing voice synthesis, principles of computer music controller design, audio analysis
Audio analysis
Audio analysis refers to the extraction of information and meaning from audio signals for analysis, classification, storage, retrieval, synthesis, etc....
and real-time computer music programming languages and systems, and has written a number of books on these subjects. Together with Gary Scavone
Gary Scavone
Gary Paul Scavone is a computer music researcher and musician.Scavone is currently an associate professor of music technology at McGill University. Previously, Scavone directed the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. He, along with Perry Cook, authored the...
, he authored the Synthesis Toolkit
Synthesis Toolkit
The Synthesis Toolkit is an open source API for real time audio synthesis with an emphasis on classes to facilitate the development of physical modelling synthesizers. It is written in C++ and is written and maintained by Perry Cook at Princeton University and Gary Scavone at CCRMA...
and with Ge Wang
Ge Wang
Ge Wang is a Chinese American musician and computer scientist, known for developing the ChucK audio programming language as a graduate student advised by Perry Cook, and for being co-founder and chief technology officer of Smule, a company making iPhone and iPad music apps...
the ChucK
ChucK
ChucK is a concurrent, strongly timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and iPhone/iPad. It is designed to favor readability and flexibility for the programmer over other considerations such...
programming language. He is also a co-founder, with Dan Trueman
Dan Trueman
Dan Trueman is a composer, improviser, new instrument creator and software designer. He plays the violin and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Trueman studied physics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, composition and theory at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in...
, of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk
PLOrk
The Princeton Laptop Orchestra is a Princeton University ensemble of computer based meta-instruments. It is the first ensemble of its kind in the history of computer music, both in scale and in approach.-Background:...
). 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
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
(2008) and the Guggenheim Foundation (2003).
Cook is also an avid conch shell musician, including the ancient conch-shell Peruvian instrument known as pututus.
His adviser was Julius Orion Smith III at Stanford.