Troy Rogers is a composer, sound artist and occasional cult leader. His Robot Rickshaw was a human-driven cart full of musical robots that was destroyed during Homegrown 2022. The name carries on, however, as Rogers’ performance persona. At Homegrown 2023, Rogers turned his Robot Rickshaw performance slot into a futurist mass at Sacred Heart Music Center. Two months later, he was selected as a McKnight Composer Fellow. What’s next? “The automated pocket trumpet and sousaphone may make their Homegrown debuts this year,” Rogers warns.