coretet
I'm an Associate Professor of Music and Media and Head of the Department of Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) located in Troy, New York. I teach courses focused on the integration of music and technology, as well as courses within the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) program focused on music, gaming and simulation.
My research interests encompass elements of composition, electronic music, human-computer interaction, cognition, artificial intelligence, sonification, network performance, gaming and virtual reality. In short, I'm interested in digging deeper into the ways in which we create, control, listen to and understand sound and music.
teaching @ rpi
Fall 2022
Spring 2023
Past Courses
media
SIGGRAPH 2021
Trois Machins de la Grace...
Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture)
Coretet
108 Troubles
Carillon
IEEE Computing Now
Ensemble Nonlinear
NIME'16
ECHO::Canyon
GDC'14
WAIR Miami
upcoming events
6.2.2023
I will perform Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) at NIME 2023 in Mexico City, Mexico. (NIME 2023)
6.19.2023
I will perform Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) at the MISE-EN Festival in New York City, NY. (https://www.mise-en.org/)
recent events
5.31-6.2.2023
I am serving as the Music Co-Chair for the 2023 New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) International conference in Mexico City, Mexico. (https://www.nime2023.org/)
5.15.2023
As part of the 2023 TENOR Conference I will perform Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, at the Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall. (TENOR Boston 2023)
5.8-12.2023
I will present an invited paper entitled "Real-time musical performance across and within extended reality environments" at the 2023 Acoustical Society of America conference in Chicago, Illinois as part of the special session on Computational Acoustics: Real-Time Computing. (https://acousticalsociety.org/chicago-2022/)
4.8.2023
I performed Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) at Cary Hall in the DiMenna Center for Classical Music as part of the 2023 SEAMUS National Conference.
4.1.2023
As part of Art Science Connect at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, I gave a talk about my work and process for the "innovation:SOUND:technology (IST)" series.
(artscienceconnect.gc.cuny.edu)
2 -3.2023
For Spring 2023 I served as a visiting professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City, Mexico, teaching an intensive seminar on interactive design and development for Music and Gaming with Unreal Engine.
12.2.2022
I served as the remote co-host for the 2022 Ecos Urbanos Festival (Mexico City, Mexico) and performed Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) streamed remotely from Rensselaer's EMPAC Studio 2
(video)
6.7.2022
I performed Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) at the 2022 SMC Conference in St. Etienne, France
(video)
8.10.2021
Coretet was selected and presented at the 2021 SIGGRAPH conference's Real-Time Live show, "the premier celebration of the top original, jury-reviewed interactive projects of the year."
(video)
8.2021
I was elected as Head of the Arts Department in the School of Humanities, Arts and Sciences (HASS) at Rensselaer.
7.26.2021
I presented the paper "Ensemble Nonlinear: Low-cost Ensemble Performance with Networked Raspberry Pi's" at the 2021 International Computer Music Conference.
7.2021
I served as chair of the new XR Music track at the 2021 International Computer Music Conference, leading a team of Rensselaer graduate students to design and develop a virtual musical gallery using Mozilla Hubs.
6.14.2021
I was interviewed for the Dartmouth College Class of '96 "Roads Taken" podcast, discussing my educational and creative backgrounds in music, technology and beyond.
2.5.2021
I gave a talk entitled "Virtual Instrument Design for the 21st Century/La conception d'instruments virtuels pour le 21e siècle" at the 2021 IRCAM Forum Montréal organized by McGill University/SAT Montréal.
(video)
1.19.2021
With Luca Turchet and Anil Çamci I published the paper "Music in Extended Realities" in the Open Access IEEE Access Journal, outlining historic and current trends in the application of virtual reality, augmented reality and extended reality technologies for musical creation, production and consumption.
(link)
1.1.2021
A book chapter I wrote about the composition and design of Coretet and Trois Machins de la Grâce Aimante entitled "Composing (and Designing) Trois Machins de la Grâce Aimante: a Virtual Reality String Quartet" is being published within the book "Ludified: Artistic Research in Audiovisual Composition, Performance and Perception" by The Green Box, Berlin. The book was edited by Marko Ciciliani, Barbara Lüneburg and Andreas Pirchner.
(link)
11.30.2020
My recent paper "od: Composing Spatial Multimedia for the Web" co-written with Cem Cakmak has been published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (Vol. 68, Issue 10).
(link)
7.10.2020
Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) was selected to be presented at the virtual showing of the 2020 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Santiago, Chile.
(link)
7.10.2020
The paper "Ensemble Nonlinear: Low-cost Ensemble Performance with Networked Raspberry Pi's" was selected to be presented at the virtual showing of the 2020 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Santiago, Chile.
(link)
4.01.2020
Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) was selected to be presented at the virtual showing of the 2020 New York City Electroacoutic Music Festival (NYCEMF).
(link)
3.07.2020
I performed Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) at the Moxsonic Festival on March 7, 2020 at University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri.
1.8.2020
Along with Anil Camci I served as Guest Editor of Volume 49, Special Issue #1 of the Journal of New Music Research entitled "Audio-first VR: New Perspectives on Musical Experiences in Virtual Environments." Focusing on artistic and scientific research about and around the issue of audio's primary role in the creation and understanding of virtual reality software and environments, the issue also features our contribution "Audio-first VR: Imagining the Future of Virtual Environments for Musical Expression". (link, .pdf)