Perry R Cook

Biographic Data

ID2788572
NAMEPerry R Cook
GIVEN NAMESPerry R
FAMILY NAMECook
SIGNATURECOOK P R
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX2

  • Sola

    Perry R Cook, Scott SmallwoodARTICLELeonardo Music Journal2010

    This paper describes a series of investigations into the use of sustainable methods for powering electronic musical instruments and perhaps ultimately a large ensemble such as the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, a collection of 15–25 meta-instruments each consisting of a laptop computer, interfacing equipment and a hemispherical speaker. The research discussed includes the development of instruments specifically designed for solar power, as well as t…

  • Musical Tapestry

    Ananya Misra, Ge Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of New Music Research2007

    A system to aid composition with analysis, transformation, and re-synthesis of natural sounds is described. Sinusoidal analysis is used to isolate and extract deterministic sounds, and transients are also isolated/extracted, leaving the stochastic background which is parameterized by wavelet tree analysis. All of these components become templates for the synthesis phase, which is controlled (1) by placing templates on timelines or in groups, (2) …

  • Preservation and extension of traditional techniques

    Ajay Kapur, Philip Davidson et al.ARTICLEJournal of New Music Research2005

    This article describes systems for capturing gestures from a performing artist playing North Indian instruments. Modified traditional instruments use sensor technology and microcontrollers to digitize performance, enabling a computer to synthesize sound and generate visual meaning. Specifically, systems were built to capture data from three traditional North Indian instruments: the tabla (a pair of tonal hand drums), the dholak (a barrel-shaped f…

  • Remutualizing the Musical Instrument

    Perry R CookARTICLEJournal of New Music Research2004

    From the advent of electronic music, and even from early organ consoles and other remote manipulated instruments, much of the design and research of new musical interfaces has focused on abstracting (both physically and in the design process) the “controller” from the “synthesizer” and then investigating how to best interface those two classes of hardware with each other and the player. Yet, many of the striking lessons from our history of intima…

  • The Electronic Tabla Controller

    Ajay Kapur, Georg Essl et al.ARTICLEJournal of New Music Research2003

    This paper describes the design of an electronic Tabla controller (ETabla). Tabla are a pair of hand drums traditionally used to accompany North Indian vocal and instrumental music. The ETabla controls both sound and graphics simultaneously. It allows for a variety of traditional Tabla strokes and new performance techniques. Graphical feedback allows for artistic display and has potential pedagogical applications. This paper describes the evoluti…

  • Pitch Histograms in Audio and Symbolic Music Information Retrieval

    George Tzanetakis, Andrey Ermolinskyi et al.ARTICLEJournal of New Music Research2003Cited by: 2

    In order to represent musical content, pitch and timing information is utilized in the majority of existing work in Symbolic Music Information Retrieval (MIR). Symbolic representations such as MIDI allow the easy calculation of such information and its manipulation. In contrast, most of the existing work in Audio MIR uses timbral and beat information, which can be calculated using automatic computer audition techniques

  • BoSSA

    Perry R Cook, Perry Cook et al.ARTICLEJournal of New Music Research2000Cited by: 2

    Traditional musical instruments provide compelling metaphors for human-computer interfacing, both in terms of input (physical, gestural performance activities) and output (sound diffusion). The violin, one of the most refined and expressive of traditional instruments, combines a peculiar physical interface with a rich acoustic diffuser. We have built a new instrument that includes elements of both the violin’s physical performance interface and i…