Robot Goes Here

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Robot Goes Here is David Rand: see http://www.DaveRand.org. Punk rock expatriate Dave Rand spent his teenage years in vans touring the east coast - 12 bands in 8 years. When the final group disbanded in 2004, Rand sat down to write, alone with a laptop. He loved it and he began to record. Rand delivers the same intense, high-stakes show that he always has, complete with jumps, kicks and mic tosses. The only difference is that now he performs alone on stage with a laptop and a microphone. Audiences who haven't experienced Rand's format are initially stunned. The most common comment I hear is 'I've never seen or heard anyone do anything like this,' " followed by, "You’ve got a lotta guts to do what you do." Looks of astonishment turn to respect quickly at Robot Goes Here shows. There is no other artist like this performing today. It's punk rock and it's all electronic. Synthesized sounds and samples take the place of Marshall amps. "Start with a computer kid in a punk rock band, take away the band and this is what you get," says Rand of his evolution. Add to this unusual scenario the fact that Rand is a serious scientist - a PhD candidate at Harvard in Systems Biology at the time of the record's release, now a professor at Yale - who writes relevant, questioning songs about today's real problems. "I try to think about the world and all the complexities and contradictions, without jumping to simplifications." (For us lay people, Systems Biology uses math and computation to con

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