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{{Short description|American computer music researcher}}
'''Perry R. Cook''' (born September 25, 1955) is an American [[computer music]] researcher and professor emeritus of [[computer science]] and [[music]] at [[Princeton University]]. He was also founder and head of the [[Princeton Sound Lab]].

Cook has worked in the areas of [[physical modeling]], singing voice synthesis, music information retrieval, 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.<ref>P. Cook, ed. Music, Cognition and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics, MIT Press, 1999</ref><ref>P. Cook, Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications, A.K. Peters Press, 2002</ref>  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]] in 2005, 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.<ref>Cevallos, Marissa, [https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/conch-trumpets-peru/ "3,000-Year-Old Conch Trumpets Play Again"], Wired Magazine, Nov. 19, 2010.</ref>

Cook is a founding advisor (since 2008) to [[Smule]], a successful mobile music app company.

In 2012, Cook and [[Ajay Kapur]] received an NSF-funded grant <ref>– NSF Grant#1140336 "A New Curriculum to Teach Computer Science Principles to Students in Digital Media Arts https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140336</ref> to create a programming and technology curriculum for art schools. Beginning in 2013 with [[Ajay Kapur]] and others, Cook co-founded [[Kadenze]], an online arts education company.

His adviser was [[Julius Orion Smith III]] at Stanford.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/|title=JOS Home Page|website=ccrma.stanford.edu}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/}}
* [http://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/ Princeton SoundLab]
* [http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/stk/ Synthesis Toolkit]
* [http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/ Princeton Laptop Orchestra]
* [http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ ChucK programming language]

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