Troy Rogers

🐝✨ Happy Holidays from The Bee and The Hummingbird! 🎄 Ridiculous Proposal Vol. 6: Holidays An album of favorite holiday classics that never disappoints. 🎧 Link in Bio. /album/ridiculous-proposal-vol-6-holidays #experimentalmusic #electronicmusic #holidaymusic #ridiculousproposal #thebeeandthehummingbird #jinglebells #silentnight #rudolphtherednosedreindeer #carolofthebells #dreidel #feliznavidad #holidayalbum #happyholidays❤️ #holidays #christmas #christmasmusic #hanukkahgift #hanukkah #santaclaus

HOW TO DIE LAUGHING (for any number of performers, living or departing) Choose a day to begin (preferably one no one is prepared for). On Day 0, Laugh continuously for 1 minute. On Day 1, laugh for 2 minutes. On Day 2, laugh for 3 minutes. On Day 3, laugh for 5 minutes. On Day 4, laugh for 8 minutes. Continue increasing the duration of laughter by the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584 … minutes, and so on) Laughter must be continuous, though you may breathe, wheeze, sob, or levitate. Falling down is permitted. As is standing up again. If/when your laughter exceeds: the world’s individual endurance record (currently just over 4 hours, to be exceeded on Day 13 with 6 hours, 17 minutes of continuous individual laughter), and/or the world’s collective endurance record (currently just over 36 hours, to be broken on Day 17, with 43 hours, 4 minutes of continuous group laughter), you may declare yourself a Master of Low-Probability Endurance Laughter. If at any point you forget how to laugh, begin again from Day 0 or remain silent until the laughter returns from wherever it went. The piece ends when the performer: stops participating, achieves enlightenment, or joins the ranks of Ascendent Endurance Laughing Masters and dies laughing. -Troy Rogers, 2025.12.5, Miami, FL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Juraj Kojš, Director: [email protected] FETA – Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts / Miami Art Week Hosts BELLY, a Global Endurance Laughter Initiative Sound Artist-Researcher Troy Rogers debuts new LAFF device in a public activation responding to global laughter deficits Miami, FL — December 2025 — The Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts (FETA) announces the arrival of BELLY, the Global Biosocial Endurance Laughing & Longevity Year-zero Summit, a new cultural and research initiative positioned at the intersection of performance, public health futurism, and affective sustainability. BELLY’s inaugural public activation will take place during Miami Art Week, introducing endurance laughter as an urgently needed response to global affective instability. BELLY emerges in a moment marked by international concern over diminishing human laughter outputs. The United Nations Framework on Affective Sustainability (UNFAS) recently released data through the LAG Index (Laughter–Absurdity Gap), highlighting a widening discrepancy between global absurdity intensities and collective laughter responses. In parallel, the World Health Organization’s International Commission on Humor Resilience & Youth (WHO-ICHRY) has issued GLOOM, the Global Laughter Output Optimization Mandate, calling for immediate research, intervention, and public participation. Against this backdrop, BELLY positions laughter not as entertainment, but as a biosocial technology essential for resilience, coherence, and longevity. Event Details BELLY Activation: Endurance Laughter Session + LAFF Device Premiere Date: Sunday, December 7, 2025 Time: 6-8pm Location: Orchid Market, Lincoln Road (near Euclid), Miami Beach, FL Presented by: FETA – Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts Facilitators & Performers: Troy Rogers, Juraj Kojš, Dimitry Saïd Chamy, Betzaida Ferrer, and members of the Futurist Gardening Group Image: painting by @mariana_kojsova_

After an inspiring musicians’ residency at Art Omi in NY during August, I bee-lined back to MN to catch the final weeks of the wild rice harvest. Spent much of September harvesting these sacred grains (manoomin). The season spilled into October this year, fabbing some rice processing add-ons and parching, dehulling, and winnowing the rice (and searching for a new vehicle after blowing a head gasket on the way back from my final rice harvesting sesh). Wild-grown, hand-harvested, high protein, antioxidant-rich, bog-to-table goodness. DM to get on the rice list. First come, while it lasts. Big thanks to Herb at Caribou Cream Maple Syrup for helping out with space, time, processing equipment, tutelage, and processing assistance, Blake at Finland Wild Rice house for knowledge sharing that was particularly helpful in designing and building an auger conveyor hopper and vacuum chaff separator output attachment for Herb’s dehuller, and of course to my stalwart brother in rice, Hard-polin’ @petebiasi

Jennifer Wright and Troy Rodgers Explore a Previously Sunken Piano during a Collaboration as part of a Preamble to SubSuperior… @jenniferwrightcomposer @robotrickshaw @subsuperior #dlh

Jerree Small performs the ever classic Southwire hit “Bell” as part of a Warmup to SubSuperior… @jerreesmall @robotrickshaw @subsuperior #DLH #LakeSuperior

Anyone in/near Duluth have a toy piano they’d be willing to part with?! Portland’s Queen of Spectacle, Jennifer Wright, is joining us soon for @subsuperior ! One of the unexpected joys of working with Trimpin on his Cello Quartet at @othermindssf last fall was meeting @jenniferwrightcomposer Here’s a taste of her latest madness, from Oregon Arts Watch: “Next up is the MOST NOTORIOUS of Cascadia Composers: Jennifer Wright, THE QUEEN OF SPECTACLE… Oregon’s favorite ever-roaming, hungry-hearted MAVEN OF THE WEIRD has finally gone full Harry Partch…” Her latest creation? ARACHNE: perhaps the largest steel-cable Long Strings Instrument, stretching over 160 feet, accompanied by sound machines forged from 3000 lbs. of shipyard scrap. This isn’t just music. It’s ecstatic, mid-collapse, post-industrial sonic ritual. What will she do aboard HEXAS, while floating along the surface of our inland unsalted sea? Read the full (and thoroughly entertaining) preview of last weekend’s premiere here: MusicWatch Monthly: Strong as life • Oregon ArtsWatch (/musicwatch-monthly-strong-as-life/) Check out her work, now linked in bio. And if you have a toy piano to send our way, give a shout…hers doesn’t fit in her carry-on and she flies in tonight! #SubSuperior #HEXAS #QueenOfSpectacle #JenniferWright #CascadiaComposer #SoundArt #ExperimentalMusic #LongStringInstrument #ShipyardSonics #SonicRitual #MavenOfTheWeird #PostIndustrialMusic #ARACHNE #SteelCableSymphony #FloatingStage #EcstaticCollapse #Artphibious #WaterIsLife #ArtOnTheWater #PerformanceArt #ToyPianoWanted #ToyPianoNeeded #DuluthMN #SoundInstallation #FloatingCity #Mythopoetics #ListenToTheLake #JoinTheDrift #RadicalCreativity #SonicAlchemy

This summer, @robotrickshaw and @subsuperior collaborated with students at Duluth Denfeld High School as part of the DASH program coordinated by @anne.m.parish in a hands-on research group investigating water-based music making. Earlier this month, a concept generated by Jayla resulted in the prototyping of a hydro-acoustic drum sequencer! We will likely continue to play with and develop this concept, perhaps in one of today’s sessions. Join us. 1-4 and 5-8 daily this week, DM for address or sign up at link in bio. #SubSuperior #HEXAS #Aquautonomous #STEAMeducation #HydroAcoustics #WaterMusic #UnderwaterMusic #SoundArt #ExperimentalMusic #StudentInnovation #YouthInSTEAM #FutureCreators #DuluthMN #DenfeldHighSchool #ArtAndScience #EcoArt #FloatingClassroom #ArtEducation #STEAMpowered #Hydrophonic #WaterIsLife #ExperimentalSound #SonicEcology #DIYFuturism #RadicalLearning #FloatingLab #WaterBasedLearning #SoundExplorers #ListenToTheLake #nextwavecreators Troy Rogers is a fiscal year 2025 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Day 1 recap: 4/7 Hexels have entered the water. We gathered to celebrate HEXAS and slide into the week while taking in a glorious sunset. The water wizardry has commenced. Join us! We’re gathering 2x daily M-F at HEXAS’ safe haven: our gracious hosts, Annie and Jer’s place (DM for address if needed &/or fill out at least contact info on the form at link in bio). 1-4 and 5-8 pm. Bring yourself, creative energy and ideas, snacks, hydration, sunscreen, friends, tools, materials, projects, instruments, and anything else you dream or desire to share. Join us as you’re able, for as much or as little makes sense for you. If/when we hit the lake, we’ll blast it out and leave a note. Hope to see you soon! Also, whether you can join us or not and want to support this endeavor, we welcome donations of food/drinks for active aquautonomous agents and the purchase of imaginary tickets ($25-50 suggested, pay what you can) and sponsorships to transmute $ into magic at the other link in bio. 📸 @lissamaki and Alby Breilein. #SubSuperior #HEXAS #Aquautonomous #Artphibious #WaterIsLife #ExperimentalArt #SiteSpecificArt #SoundArt #EcoArt #FloatingArchitecture #ModularDesign #RadicalCreativity #DIYFuturism #ArtFestival #PerformanceArt #BlueEcology #WatershedWisdom #DrownedForestsRemember #RitualPerformance #UnderwaterMusic #Mythopoetics #FutureMyth #SoftWetMutiny #LakeSuperior #ListenToTheLake #DuluthMN #FloatingCity #VisitDuluth #SoundInstallation #PerfectDuluthDay Troy Rogers (aka @robotrickshaw ) is a fiscal year 2025 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

After long murmurings in the depths, we breach. SubSuperior rises. 7/27–8/2. Duluth’s unsalted sea. Come float. Come sink. Come play. This is your invitation. Become an Active Aquautonomous Agent. Link in bio. #SubSuperior #UnsaltedSea #FreshwaterPirates #Aquautonomous #BreachAndBecome #DuluthMN #LakeSuperior #FloatingFestival #UnderwaterMusic #ExperimentalMusic #SoundArt #ArtFestival #MusicFestival #WeAreTheWater #SubaqueousAgents #FreshwaterMyth #RogueStage #ModularFlotilla #MarineMammalRitual #SirenSongSystems #VoidMusic #PirateOpera #LiminalGathering #DuluthEvents #QuantumBecoming #MysticMachinery #NeonRitual #Hydrophonic #StakeYourClaim #HEXAS Troy Rogers is a fiscal year 2025 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.