robot karaoke: fall 2026

above: look at us. august at the elysian in LA

hi everyone,

it's been a summer and early fall stacked enough to make one grateful one started naming the newsletters after seasons instead of months. i've been a bicoastal ping pong ball while jenn and will have valiantly held down robot karaoke's monocoastal forts. producers sam and max (pictured above but i won't say where) have wrangled a slew of incredible guests and piloted the robot karaoke instagram with bravery and grace.

to business...

upcoming shows (with parenthetical items of interest):

friday nov 6 at 9pm at the elysian in LA (tomorrow! will hosts)
thursday nov 12 at 7pm at asylum NYC (jenn, will and me all in the same show for the first time ever)
monday nov 30 at wonderville in NYC (thanksgiving themed?)
friday december 4 at 7:30pm and 9pm at the elysian (last doubleheader of the year featuring demi adejuyigbe, georgia maq, erin moriarty and tom mcgovern in the early show)

some new datasets in the catalog:

trader joe's products
youtube apologies
fortune cookie fortunes
wii game titles
road signs from the us, the uk and australia

and some new songs:

the reason by hoobastank
lose yourself by eminem
i wanna dance with somebody by whitney houston
a MIDI rendition of landslide by fleetwood mac (along with several other MIDI renditions testifying to the strength of the refurbished MIDI annotation software pipeline)

a couple robot karaoke–adjacent plugs:

on sunday nov 15 i'll be at the small batch data farmers market at LARPA buying and bartering datasets with dozens of other artisanal data vendors
in january claire and i are co-teaching a class on digital and physical collage at the school for poetic computation. we'll be exploring "handmade and generative systems for arranging found material" — such as robot karaoke! if that sounds interesting to you, consider signing up by the 15th

happy holidays if you celebrate, happy birthday if you don't,

jamie