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Sacha Krstulovic breaks down the fundamental realities of AI in music that cut through the hype and fear dominating current discourse. As someone who’s spent decades building AI systems for audio—from speech recognition to environmental sound detection—he offers a grounded framework for understanding what AI actually does versus what we imagine it does. The conversation explores why pressing a but...

Guest : Jordan Davis, solo founder of TensorPunk with 15 years of music industry experience spanning performance, recording, and sync licensing. Musician-technologist building AI tools from a producer's perspective. Topics : AI music tool development, Mace generative sampler, Anvil model training platform, DAW integration, dataset curation, performance-focused AI instruments, hacker ethos in music...

Guests : CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski, Dadabots founders, AI music researchers since 2012, known for intense neural metal streams and frontier AI music research Key Topics : Live AI performance, prompt jockeying techniques, real-time music generation, cultural implications of AI training data, future of music interfaces Must-listen conversation with Dadabots founders CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski, who've...

Guest: Ezra, Founder of AudioCipher Technologies Topics: AI Music Workflows, Creative Tech Stacks, Film Scoring, Industry Ethics About Musicians wrestling with AI's place in their creative process will find practical frameworks here. Ezra breaks down how serious producers are building "tech stacks" with Suno, Udio, and ElevenLabs—moving beyond one-click generation toward intentional creative workf...

In this episode of softmax, I invited my good friends for a roundtable discussion. Joining me are Shamanic, a multidisciplinary creative technologist; Levi, a musician and founder of on-chain co-op Amerge; and Alex, a community organizer, spiritual explorer, and founder of Mothership, a creative accelerator. We dive into some fascinating topics that have been on our minds lately, starting with Sha...

In this episode of softmax, I had the pleasure of sitting down with R. Tyler , a fascinating artist who straddles the worlds of music production, live coding, and computational biology. Our conversation dove deep into the realm of algorithmic music-making and the vibrant Algorave scene. R. Tyler shared his unique approach to creating music with code, offering insights into how this method differs...

In this episode of softmax , I sit down with Moises Horta Valenzuela, aka Hexorcismos , an innovative artist and technologist based in Berlin. Moises has been pushing the boundaries of electronic music and AI since the 2010s. His journey from the experimental sound music scene in Tijuana to the forefront of generative AI in music is something I found very inspiring. We dive into his early work wit...

Welcome to the very first podcast episode of Softmax! I'm Mark Redito, and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Nao Tokui, an electronic music producer, DJ, surfer, and CEO of Neutone, a groundbreaking startup that is building next-generation AI tools for musicians. In our conversation, we delve deep into the intersection of creativity, art, and technology, exploring how AI is not just a too...

“I think culture always lives [on] … I don't believe that it doesn't matter what the artist believes that their music should be. That's really, really important. But if it's good, if it resonates with people, it's going to be more [than that] because people are gonna sing along to it… maybe people are gonna play around with it…. People are gonna think like, “oh, this song really matches with that...

Punk, indie, emo, hip-hop, jazz, electronic music… pretty much every modern genre has gone through through these kinds of growing pains, and pretty much every dedicated music fan over the age of 25 has seen a genre they loved morph into something they no longer recognize or fully identify with. These shifts are normal and natural, and yet people’s primary response to them is usually one of anger a...

“When you think about the artistic creative heroes of the last century, they're all individual people's names. And for the next century to be less of this myth of the lone heroic genius and more of thinking about groups of people that did stuff together.” - Austin Robey Dive into the future of the creative ecosystem in this insightful episode featuring Austin Robey (Metalabel/Ampled), as we explor...

Darby Trash is a highly talented artist with a diverse set of skills that includes being a guitarist, tattoo artist, and DIY punk web3 enthusiast. As one of the key members of the highly prolific collective Lexicon Devils, Darby has played an integral role in the production of their virtual show series known as Forming. During the course of our conversation, we delved deep into the fascinating wor...

This lengthy conversation with CJ Carr, of the extreme music AI research lab Dadabots, covers a lot of cool topics. We discuss Dadabots' origins, history, and their avant-garde creative process. We also touched on neural synthesis and its applications in music, as well as the role of curation in music generation. Additionally, we dive into their creative collaborations in AI and Web3, the converge...

We are thrilled to have the opportunity to feature Neesh Chaudhary (@losingmyego) on the inaugural episode of CONVO! Neesh is a highly talented artist who has been working in a variety of mediums, including film, photography, design and coding. This episode gave us a chance to find out more about her fantastic project The Doom Generation, gain an insight into her creative approach, her vision and...