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Project/Object is a band that plays the music of Frank Zappa. The band is named after Zappa's own "Project/Object," wherein he repeated a series of spoken and musical themes over the course of his entire 30-year career, an idea he termed "conceptual continuity."

Project/Object's current core band is Napoleon Murphy Brock on saxophone, flute, and vocals, André Cholmondeley on guitar and vocals, Robbie Seahag on guitar and vocals, Eric Svalgard on keyboards and vocals, Dave Johnsen on electric bass, and Eric Slick on drums.

The band was formed by Cholmondeley in the early 1990s and its focus is exclusively reinterpreting the music of Zappa, usually by arranging the songs in new ways, creating spontaneous interludes with references to current events slipped in, and featuring long passages of guitar-based improvisation.

Project/Object have released two albums so far and are often on tour; the lineup changes, but it often features members of Zappa's many bands, including Ike Willis, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Denny Walley, Mike Keneally and Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black.

In 2003, ex-Project/Object members Rick Bartow (P/O bassist), James "Spackle" Boland (P/O driver), Jeffrey "Boxy" Breedlove (P/O keyboardist), John "Mumbo" Cochran (P/O drummer), Wes Paich (P/O drummer), Jordan Shapiro (P/O keyboardist) formed the band Project Reject. They continue to record and sometimes feature Robbie Seahag (P/O stunt guitarist).