Publications

• Bhandari, K., Bizzarri, M., Wiggins, G. A., & Colton, S. (2026). Change is Key: A Generative Framework for Controllable Musical Modulations. Manuscript under review, JNMR.
• Bhandari, K., Chang, S., Roy, A., Ronchini, F., Benetos, E., Herremans, D., & Colton, S. (2026). Text2Score: Generating Sheet Music From Textual Prompts. Manuscript under review, AAAI.
• Bhandari, K., Roy, A., Herremans, D., & Colton, S. Emerging AI Technologies for Music: Towards Controllable, Collaborative, and Creative Systems. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), vol. 303, pp. 1–5, 1st Workshop on Emerging AI Technologies for Music (EAIM) at AAAI, 2026.

• Bhandari, K., Chang, S., Lu, T., Enus, F. R., Herremans, D., & Colton, S. ImprovNet - Generating Controllable Musical Improvisations with Iterative Corruption Refinement. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2025.
• Bhandari, K., Wiggins, G. A., & Colton, S. Yin-Yang: Developing Motifs With LongTerm Structure And Controllability. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART), 2025. (Best Paper Award)
• Bhandari, K., Roy, A., Wang, K., Puri, G., Colton, S., & Herremans, D. Text2midi: Generating Symbolic Music from Captions. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.

• Bhandari, K., & Colton, S. (2024). Motifs, Phrases, and Beyond: The Modelling of Structure in Symbolic Music Generation. In International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (Part of EvoStar) (pp. 33-51). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
• Colton, S., Bradshaw, L., Banar, B., & Bhandari, K. (2024). Automatic Generation of Expressive Piano Miniatures. International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC).

• O'Reilly, P., Bugler, A., Bhandari, K., Morrison, M., & Pardo, B. (2022, November). VoiceBlock: Privacy through Real-Time Adversarial Attacks with Audio-to-Audio Models. Neural Information Processing Systems.