Gregg Rossetti holds a Ph.D. in music composition from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, with a dissertation on how specific musical tropes build worlds in early console role-playing video games. His research interests in ludomusicology cover topics such as the use of leitmotifs in world-building, instrumental and timbral symbolism, using music as a reward, and the correlation of popular music and video game music. He has presented his research or given music-tech-related workshops at GameSoundCon, the North American Conference on Video Game Music, College Music Society, Music and the Moving Image, and at the Society of Music Theory’s annual meeting.

His concert music has been commissioned or performed by several new music ensembles and touring artists including wind quintets for Englewinds, a saxophone sonata for Dave Wozniak, a chamber work for Nouveau Classical Project, and a microtonal piece for Newband. He also co-founded the progressive rock band, Suspyre, with whom he has produced four commercially-released albums and have performed several concerts and festivals in New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, and The Netherlands.

His current multimedia projects include working as a composer, sound designer, and audio engine designer for multiple indie game developers, including PhanxGames and Frabjous Studios. In addition to running a studio of students and recording clients, he teaches courses in the history of popular music, music technology, recording, and music theory and composition at both Montclair State and Rutgers University. He is currently the coordinator of music technology and the manager of the recording studio at Rutgers.