Ro(b)//ert Lundberg - by-passing-upon - Art Book

by-passing-upon is the latest addition to the ongoing work of bassist and composer Ro(b)//ert Lundberg. 

The accompanying artist book expands the visual and thematic world of the project, inviting audiences to flip through 100 of Lundberg’s photographs with an accompanying poetic narrative unfolding line by line, page by page. Includes digital download of album.

Built from a palette of double bass, cello, clarinet, drums, synthesizer, masking tape, and water-filled vessels, by-passing-upon merges sonorous ambient tones with driving rhythms and flowing, bubbling patterns. Prompted by a score both graphic and notated, as well as stage props including multi-colored tape, ladders, a kettle, and beach balls, Lundberg’s ensemble realizes a work existing in the fluid space between pre-composed and improvised music.

01 - pooling 1
02 - flowing 1
03 - pooling 2
04 - flowing 2

double bass & composition: Ro(b)//ert Lundberg
cello & synthesizer: Lia Kohl
bass clarinet & synthesizer: Jeff Kimmel
percussion: Sam Scranton
water objects & tape: Jasmine Mendoza, Nina Vroemen, Zachary Nicol
movement direction: Nina Vroemen

recorded live at Constellation by Nolan Chin
mixed & mastered by John Dieterich
album design & layout by Matthew Sage, materials by Ro

Thanks to the immense, immeasurable contributions from Alexandra Lakind, collaboration from Nina Vroemen, and assistance in many forms from Moser Lakind, Nearby Person, Ally Reith, Matthew Nicholas, Atlanta Improvisers Orchestra, Watershed Art & Ecology, Homeroom & Paul Giallorenzo, AKP Recordings, Samer Alatout, Tom Jones, Tressie Kamp, Sarah Kanouse, Corey Smith, Utile Architecture & Planning, Zander Raymond.

This album came together on the southwest shore of (Lake) Michigami with/in the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe. The coercive imposition of a Euro-American property system, facilitated here through treaties from 1795 to 1833, undermined the Anishinaabe and other Indigenous peoples’ territorial sovereignty. Such treaties ceded the land but not the Lake. Yet, this property system extends its reach to things as unnoticed as the pipes beneath our feet, carrying Lake to lips, lawns, and lavatories.