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“by-passing-upon is one of those interdisciplinary, multi-format works that succeed on every level. As a visual experience, multiple senses are activated. As a solely aural piece, it’s still vastly liberating and enormously moving.“
“by-passing-upon invites listeners on a sensory and intellectual journey through water, sound, and space, oscillating between structure and freedom. Lundberg transforms overlooked elements…into poetic musical forms, elegantly dissolving the boundary between composition and improvisation.”
“a vivid and engrossing hymn to water, an astonishing, sad, beautiful, inspiring evocation of water in all its hidden and unseen wonder.“
Sounds Like
Ro(b)//ert (Chicago) on double bass (and occasional vocals) leads an ever-shifting ensemble in blending tuneful experimentalism, rhythmically-engrossing trance, and palatial ambient harmonies. Performances range from whisper-soft moments to raucous collective grooves.
Engrossing, experimental, tuneful
*Available as a live chamber ensemble of 4-8 musicians, as well as a solo performance with custom speaker array. Can be presented in traditional and non-traditional venues, including outdoors.
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Band Members
Ro(b)//ert Lundberg – Double bass, Vocals, Electronics
Collaborators include:
- John Dieterich – Guitar
- Zach Good – Clarinet, Recorder, Whistles
- Will Greene – Guitar, Saxophone
- Deidre Huckabay – Flute, Percussion, Voice
- Robbie Hunsinger – Oboe, Saxophone, Fiddle, Voice
- Max Jaffe – Percussion
- Chris Jonas – Saxophone, Percussion
- Jeff Kimmel – Clarinet, Synthesizer
- Lia Kohl – Cello, Synthesizer, Voice
- John McCowen – Clarinet
- Ryan Packard – Percussion, Electronics
- Zander Raymond – Synthesizer, Sampler
- Matthew Sage – Synthesizer, Percussion
- Sam Scranton – Percussion
Discography
Solo/Leader
2025 – by-passing-upon (AKP Recordings)
2019 – Water Infrastructure Addendum (Astral Spirits)
Collaborative
2025 – Tim Barnes, Noumena & Lost Words (Quakebasket/Drag City)
2024 – Nighttime Ensemble, self titled (Longform Editions)
2023 – JOBS, soft sounds, (Ramp Local)
2021 – Dennis Consort, Watercolor Study 2 on A New Age for New Age, Volume 4 (Whatever’s Clever)
2020 – JOBS, endless birthdays (Ramp Local)
2019 – JOBS, Similar Canvas (Ramp Local)
2018 – Leverage Models, Whites
2018 – JOBS, Log On For the Free Chance to Log On For Free (Ramp Local)
2017 – Nestle, Hoffman Estates (Shinkoyo/Artist Pool)
2015 – Dave Scanlon, You are copper greening in open air
2015 – JOBS, killer BOB sings (New Amsterdam)
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About
Ro(b)//ert Lundberg makes music, drinks water, plays with images and words. Their solo work focuses on the interaction of human infrastructure and the spaces it inhabits. Through slowly shifting rhythms in sound, language, and video, they attempt to reorient audiences to more-than-human relations hiding in plain si(gh)t[e]. Drawing sonic inspiration from the glitch minimalism of Ryoji Ikeda, the tuneful experimentalism of Arthur Russell, and the engrossing trance of Hamid el Kasri, Lundberg constructs performances that unsettle presumed relations to pipes, property, pollution.
Now based in Chicago, they have performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe at venues and festivals such as Big Ears, Roulette Intermedium, Norwegian BioArt Arena, and CURRENTS New Media Festival. They perform solo and in outfits ranging from improvising ensembles to art rock band JOBS, with collaborators including John Dieterich, Max Jaffe, Lia Kohl, Jessica Pavone, Zander Raymond, and Dave Scanlon. They studied music at The New School and law and environmental art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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