Esteban G. (@cordutie)

🎵 About me

Hey! I'm Esteban, a PhD student at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. My current research focuses on sound representation for conditioned sound generation under the supervision of Xavier Serra and Frederic Font. If you wanna know more about me, press the link below 🙂

📓 Teaching

[2025-3] Discrete Mathematics Seminar

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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📄 Publications

[6] Gutiérrez, E., Font, F., Serra, X. & Wyse, L. (2025). A Statistics-Driven Differentiable Approach for Sound Texture Synthesis and Analysis. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx25). [DOI] [Repository] [Webpage] [Dissemination Post]

[5] Gutiérrez, E., Cádiz, R., Sing-Long, C., Font, F. & Serra, X. (2025). Fractional Fourier Synthesis. International Computer Music Conference 2025: Curiosity Play Innovation. Michigan Publishing Services. [DOI] [Webpage]

[4] Gutiérrez, E., & Cádiz, R. F. (2024). Stochastic resonance: Molding sounds from noise. Proceedings of the 21st Sound and Music Computing Conference, July 4–6, Porto, Portugal. [DOI] [Repository]

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📰 News:

[2025/10] This term, I’ll be teaching Discrete Mathematics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

[2025/09] Successfully defended my PhD proposal!

[2025/09] Presented my paper on custom texture sound loss and neural network models, accepted at DAFx 2025, in Ancona, Italy.

[2025/07] Served as a Teaching Assistant at the Generative Music AI Workshop at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

[2025/06] Paper accepted at DAFx! See you in Italy :)

[2025/06] Presented my paper on sound synthesis using the Fractional Fourier Transform, accepted at ICMC 2025, in Boston, USA.

[2025/03] Paper accepted at ICMC! See you in the USA :)

[2024/10] Started my PhD in Engineering with the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.