PUBLICATIONS

Some of my scientific research work is published in top-tier peer-reviewed conferences and journals. I also like to write about music, science and technology in formats accessible to the general public.

GENERAL PUBLIC

Will AI be the electric guitar of the 21st century?
Exploring how artists abusing creative AI tools may bring about major creative breakthroughs in arts and music.
Substack & Medium, 2025

How artists get paid from music streaming
A visual essay describing some of the basic mechanisms that underpin music streaming.
The Pudding, 2022

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Full list on my Google Scholar profile. A few selected publications below:

Muchomusic: Evaluating music understanding in multimodal audio-language models
B Weck, I Manco, E Benetos, E Quinton, G Fazekas - Proceedings of the 25th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2024. Best Paper Award

Contrastive audio-language learning for music
I Manco, E Benetos, E Quinton, G Fazekas - Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2022

GD-Retriever: Controllable Generative Text-Music Retrieval with Diffusion Models
J Guinot, E Quinton, G Fazekas - Proceedings of the 26th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2025

MusCaps: Generating Captions for Music Audio
I Manco, E Benetos, E Quinton, G Fazekas - International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2021

The song describer dataset: a corpus of audio captions for music-and-language evaluation
I Manco, B Weck, S Doh, M Won, Y Zhang, D Bogdanov, Y Wu, K Chen, P Tovstogan, E Benetos, E Quinton, G Fazekas, J Nam - Machine Learning for Audio Workshop, NeurIPS, 2023

Equivariant Self-Supervision for Musical Tempo Estimation
E Quinton - Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2022

SLAP: Siamese Language-Audio Pretraining Without Negative Samples for Music Understanding
J Guinot, A Riou, E Quinton, G Fazekas - Proceedings of the 26th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2025

Learning music audio representations via weak language supervision
I Manco, E Benetos, E Quinton, G Fazekas - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022

Robust Lossy Audio Compression Identification
V Koops, G Micchi, E Quinton - Proceedings of the 25th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2024

Tracking metrical structure changes with sparse-NMF
E Quinton, K O’Hanlon, S Dixon, M Sandler - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017