Ro(b)//ert Lundberg | by-passing-upon

Monday, March 16, 2026 · 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM

402 Washington St NE, Olympia WA

Ro(b)//ert Lundberg (of JOBS) is touring with their new album “by-passing-upon”.

Built from a palette of double bass, cello, clarinet, drums, synthesizer, masking tape, and water-filled vessels, the piece 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.

“by-passing-upon continues my long-running watery fascinations, here with a central fixation on the curb stop,” shares Lundberg. Curb stops are small metal covers in sidewalks and yards covering the shut off valve in a water pipe flowing to a building. In the US, curb stops also mark the division between state- and privately-owned pipes, acting as a physical manifestation of property lines. “In noticing, reading, photographing, moving and music-making, curb stops have acted as reminders to ponder the ways water moves with and against real and imaginary boundaries created by humans.”

Supporting sets by Liquid Letters, and by OIO (Olympia Improvisers Orchestra)

Ro(b)//ert Lundberg , Hathor Vergotis , OIO (Olympia Improvisers Orchestra)