The Sound Lab's Research in Physical Modeling

Visitors might be interested in Georg Essl's work in Banded Waveguides and Propagation Modeling.

Prof. Cook's current research includes ...

PhISM, Physically-Inspired Sonic Modeling
SPASM, a synthetic vocal tract model

Prof. Cook has also done extensive work on the STK toolkit, which contains both libraries for physical modeling, and "ready-to-go" physical models, all free of charge. STK is available from the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

If you're feeling intimidated by the subject of physical modeling, we have a (very brief) tutorial on the very subject.

There is also a list of Sound Lab publications that deal with physical modeling:

General O'Brien, J. F., P. R. Cook, and G. Essl. "Synthesizing Sound from Physically Based Motion," In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, CA, August, 529-536, 2001. pdf

Lakatos, S., P. R. Cook, and G. Scavone. "Selective Attention to the Parameters of a Physically Informed Sonic Model," Acoustics Research Letters Online, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2000. pdf

Cook, P. R., and G. Scavone. "The Synthesis ToolKit (STK)," International Computer Music Conference, Beijing, October, 1999. pdf

Tsahalinas, K., K. Tzedaki, S. Psaroudakes, D. Kamaratos, P. R. Cook, and T. Rikakis. "Physical Modeling Simulation of the Ancient Greek Elgin Auloi," International Computer Music Conference, Thessaloniki, 1997. pdf

Cook, P. R. "Integration of Physical Modeling for Synthesis and Animation," International Computer Music Conference, Banff, 1995. pdf

Cook, P. R. "A Hierarchical System for Controlling Synthesis by Physical Modeling," International Computer Music Conference, Banff, 1995. pdf

Scavone, G. and P. R. Cook."Combined Linear and Non-Linear Periodic Prediction in Calibrating Models of Musical Instruments to Recordings," International Computer Music Conference, Aarhus, DK, September 1994. pdf

Smith, J. and P. R. Cook. "The Second-Order Digital Waveguide Oscillator," International Computer Music Conference, San Jose, October, 1992. pdf

Voice
Cook, P. R., and C. Leider. "Making the Computer Sing," Proceedings of the XIII Colloquim on Musical Informatics, L'Aquila, Italy, September, 2000. pdf

Cook, P. R. "Singing Voice Synthesis History, Current Work, and Future Directions," Computer Music Journal, 20:2, 1996. pdf

Cook, P. R. "Speech and Singing Synthesis Using Physical Models, Some History and Future Directions," Symposium on Physical Models and Applicatoins in Psychoacoustics, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 1995. pdf

Cook, P. R., D. Kamarotos, T. Diamantopoulos, and G. Philippis. "IGDIS: A Modern Greek Text to Speech/Singing Program for the SPASM/Singer Instrument," International Computer Music Conference, Tokyo, September, 1993. pdf

Cook, P. R. "New Control Strategies for the Singer Articulatory Voice Synthesis System," Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, July 1993. pdf

Cook, P. R. "SPASM: a Real-Time Vocal Tract Physical Model Editor/Controller and Singer: the Companion Software Synthesis System," Computer Music Journal, 17:1, pp 30-4, 1992. pdf

Cook, P. R. "LECTOR: An Ecclesiastical Latin Control Language for the SPASM/singer Instrument," International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, October, 1991. pdf

Cook, P. R. "Noise and Aperiodicity in the Glottal Source: A Study of Singer Voices," (Invited) Twelfth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France, August, 1991. pdf

Cook, P. R. "SPASM: a Real-Time Vocal Tract Physical Model Editor/Controller and Singer: The Companion Software Synthesis System," Colloque les Modeles Physiques Dans L'Analyse, la Production et la Creation sonore, ACROE, Grenoble, 1990. pdf

Cook, P. R. "Synthesis of the Singing Voice Using a Physically Parameterized Model of the Human Vocal Tract," International Computer Music Conference, Columbus, OH, 1989. pdf

Wind and Brass Instruments
Scavone, G., and P. R. Cook. "Real-time Computer Modeling of Woodwind Instruments," International Symposium of Musical Acoustics, Acoustical Society of America, Woodbury, NY, 1998. pdf

Cook, P. R. "Physical Models for Music Synthesis, and a Meta-Controller for Real-Time Performance," International Computer Music Conference and Festival, Delphi, Greece, 1992. pdf

Cook, P. R. "A Meta-Wind-Instrument Physical Model and a Meta-Controller for Real Time Performance Control," International Computer Music Conference, San Jose, October, 1992. pdf

Cook, P. R. "Non-Linear Periodic Prediction for On-Line Identification of Oscillator Characteristics in Woodwind Instruments," International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, October, 1991. pdf

Cook, P. R. "TBone: An Interactive WaveGuide Brass Instrument Synthesis Workbench for the NeXT Machine," International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, October, 1991. pdf

Hirschman, S., P. R. Cook, and J. Smith. "Digital Waveguide Modeling and Simulation of Reed Woodwind Instruments: An Interactive Development Environment on the NeXT Computer," International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, October, 1991. pdf

PhISEM
Cook, P. R. "Physically Informed Sonic Modeling (PhISM): Synthesis of Percussive Sounds," Computer Music Journal, 21:3, 1997. pdf

Cook, P. R. "Physically Informed Sonic Modeling (PhISM): Percussive Synthesis," International Computer Music Conference, Hong Kong, September 1996. pdf

Cook, P. R. "Physical Models, Control Schemes, and Real-Time Controllers Music Synthesis," (Invited) IRCAM Symposium on Computer Music, Paris, France, March 1993. pdf

Banded Waveguide
Essl, G., and P. R. Cook. "Banded Waveguides on Circular Topologies and of Beating Modes: Tibetan Singing Bowls and Glass Harmonicas," Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Hamburg, Germany, September, 2002. pdf

Kapur, A., G. Essl, P. Davidson, and P. R. Cook. "The Electronic Tabla Controller," Proceedings of the International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME), Dublin, Ireland, May 2002. pdf

Essl, G., and P. R. Cook. "Measurements and Efficient Simulations of Bowed Bars," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108:1, 379-388, 2000. pdf

Essl, G., and P. R. Cook. "Banded Waveguides: Towards Physical Modeling of Bar Percussion Instruments," In Proceedings International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Beijing, 22-28 October, 321-324, 1999. pdf

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General	O'Brien, J. F., P. R. Cook, and G. Essl. "Synthesizing Sound from Physically Based Motion," In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, CA, August, 529-536, 2001.	pdf
	Lakatos, S., P. R. Cook, and G. Scavone. "Selective Attention to the Parameters of a Physically Informed Sonic Model," Acoustics Research Letters Online, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2000.	pdf
	Cook, P. R., and G. Scavone. "The Synthesis ToolKit (STK)," International Computer Music Conference, Beijing, October, 1999.	pdf
	Tsahalinas, K., K. Tzedaki, S. Psaroudakes, D. Kamaratos, P. R. Cook, and T. Rikakis. "Physical Modeling Simulation of the Ancient Greek Elgin Auloi," International Computer Music Conference, Thessaloniki, 1997.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "Integration of Physical Modeling for Synthesis and Animation," International Computer Music Conference, Banff, 1995.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "A Hierarchical System for Controlling Synthesis by Physical Modeling," International Computer Music Conference, Banff, 1995.	pdf
	Scavone, G. and P. R. Cook."Combined Linear and Non-Linear Periodic Prediction in Calibrating Models of Musical Instruments to Recordings," International Computer Music Conference, Aarhus, DK, September 1994.	pdf
	Smith, J. and P. R. Cook. "The Second-Order Digital Waveguide Oscillator," International Computer Music Conference, San Jose, October, 1992.	pdf
Voice	Cook, P. R., and C. Leider. "Making the Computer Sing," Proceedings of the XIII Colloquim on Musical Informatics, L'Aquila, Italy, September, 2000.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "Singing Voice Synthesis History, Current Work, and Future Directions," Computer Music Journal, 20:2, 1996.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "Speech and Singing Synthesis Using Physical Models, Some History and Future Directions," Symposium on Physical Models and Applicatoins in Psychoacoustics, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 1995.	pdf
	Cook, P. R., D. Kamarotos, T. Diamantopoulos, and G. Philippis. "IGDIS: A Modern Greek Text to Speech/Singing Program for the SPASM/Singer Instrument," International Computer Music Conference, Tokyo, September, 1993.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "New Control Strategies for the Singer Articulatory Voice Synthesis System," Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, July 1993.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "SPASM: a Real-Time Vocal Tract Physical Model Editor/Controller and Singer: the Companion Software Synthesis System," Computer Music Journal, 17:1, pp 30-4, 1992.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "LECTOR: An Ecclesiastical Latin Control Language for the SPASM/singer Instrument," International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, October, 1991.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "Noise and Aperiodicity in the Glottal Source: A Study of Singer Voices," (Invited) Twelfth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France, August, 1991.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "SPASM: a Real-Time Vocal Tract Physical Model Editor/Controller and Singer: The Companion Software Synthesis System," Colloque les Modeles Physiques Dans L'Analyse, la Production et la Creation sonore, ACROE, Grenoble, 1990.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "Synthesis of the Singing Voice Using a Physically Parameterized Model of the Human Vocal Tract," International Computer Music Conference, Columbus, OH, 1989.	pdf
Wind and Brass Instruments	Scavone, G., and P. R. Cook. "Real-time Computer Modeling of Woodwind Instruments," International Symposium of Musical Acoustics, Acoustical Society of America, Woodbury, NY, 1998.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "Physical Models for Music Synthesis, and a Meta-Controller for Real-Time Performance," International Computer Music Conference and Festival, Delphi, Greece, 1992.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "A Meta-Wind-Instrument Physical Model and a Meta-Controller for Real Time Performance Control," International Computer Music Conference, San Jose, October, 1992.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "Non-Linear Periodic Prediction for On-Line Identification of Oscillator Characteristics in Woodwind Instruments," International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, October, 1991.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "TBone: An Interactive WaveGuide Brass Instrument Synthesis Workbench for the NeXT Machine," International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, October, 1991.	pdf
	Hirschman, S., P. R. Cook, and J. Smith. "Digital Waveguide Modeling and Simulation of Reed Woodwind Instruments: An Interactive Development Environment on the NeXT Computer," International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, October, 1991.	pdf
PhISEM	Cook, P. R. "Physically Informed Sonic Modeling (PhISM): Synthesis of Percussive Sounds," Computer Music Journal, 21:3, 1997.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "Physically Informed Sonic Modeling (PhISM): Percussive Synthesis," International Computer Music Conference, Hong Kong, September 1996.	pdf
	Cook, P. R. "Physical Models, Control Schemes, and Real-Time Controllers Music Synthesis," (Invited) IRCAM Symposium on Computer Music, Paris, France, March 1993.	pdf
Banded Waveguide	Essl, G., and P. R. Cook. "Banded Waveguides on Circular Topologies and of Beating Modes: Tibetan Singing Bowls and Glass Harmonicas," Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Hamburg, Germany, September, 2002.	pdf
	Kapur, A., G. Essl, P. Davidson, and P. R. Cook. "The Electronic Tabla Controller," Proceedings of the International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME), Dublin, Ireland, May 2002.	pdf
	Essl, G., and P. R. Cook. "Measurements and Efficient Simulations of Bowed Bars," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108:1, 379-388, 2000.	pdf
	Essl, G., and P. R. Cook. "Banded Waveguides: Towards Physical Modeling of Bar Percussion Instruments," In Proceedings International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Beijing, 22-28 October, 321-324, 1999.	pdf