softmax
Episodes
AI Music, Creativity, and Human Agency: A Conversation with Sacha Krstulovic
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sacha Krstulovic breaks down the fundamental realities of AI in music that cut through the hype and fear dominating current discourse. As someone who’...
Building AI Music Tools That Musicians Actually Want to Use - Jordan Davis (Tensorpunk)
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Jordan Davis, solo founder of TensorPunk with 15 years of music industry experience spanning performance, recording, and sync licensing. Musici...
From 24/7 Streams to Live Prompt Jockeying - CJ and Zack (Dadabots)
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski, Dadabots founders, AI music researchers since 2012, known for intense neural metal streams and frontier AI music re...
AI Music's Creative Evolution: Beyond the Ethics Debate with Ezra Sandzer-Bell (AudioCipher)
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Ezra, Founder of AudioCipher TechnologiesTopics: AI Music Workflows, Creative Tech Stacks, Film Scoring, Industry EthicsAboutMusicians wrestlin...
Homie Roundtable with Shamanic, Levi Downey and Alex Park
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of softmax, I invited my good friends for a roundtable discussion. Joining me are Shamanic, a multidisciplinary creative technologist;...
Creating Music with Code feat. R. Tyler
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Decoding AI music with Moises Horta Valenzuela aka Hexorcismos
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of softmax, I sit down with Moises Horta Valenzuela, aka Hexorcismos, an innovative artist and technologist based in Berlin. Moises h...
Surfing human creativity with AI feat. Nao Tokui (Neutone)
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
06: The Twilight of Recorded Music's Reign with Bas Grasmayer (COLORS, Music X)
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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, re...
05: The Evolving Landscape of Music Culture with Shawn Reynaldo (First Floor)
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Punk, indie, emo, hip-hop, jazz, electronic music… pretty much every modern genre has gone through through these kinds of growing pains, and pretty ...
04: Creativity in Multiplayer Mode with Austin Robey (Metalabel/Ampled)
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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 o...
03: Hyperverse concerts and Experimental venues with Darby Trash (Forming/Lexicon Devils)
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
02: Music Creation in the Age of AI with Dadabots
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This lengthy conversation with CJ Carr, of the extreme music AI research lab Dadabots, covers a lot of cool topics. We discuss Dadabots' origins, hist...
01: The Doom Generation with Neesh Chaudhary (losingmyego)
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are thrilled to have the opportunity to feature Neesh Chaudhary (@losingmyego) on the inaugural episode of CONVO! Neesh is a highly talented artist...