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- ↑ P. Cook, ed. Music, Cognition and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics, MIT Press, 1999
- ↑ P. Cook, Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications, A.K. Peters Press, 2002
- ↑ Cevallos, Marissa, "3,000-Year-Old Conch Trumpets Play Again", Wired Magazine, Nov. 19, 2010.
- ↑ – 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
- ↑ "JOS Home Page". ccrma.stanford.edu.
