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Matthew Herbert On Fate of New Record's Pig

12:59 p.m. · November 12, 2009 · by Chris Bosman

 Experimental electronic musician Matthew Herbert has recorded albums with some pretty strange source material before. 2001's Bodily Functions contained sounds taken from the human body and 2006's Scale sampled a drummer playing underwater, gas pumps, and coffins, among other things. Despite that, his upcoming 2010 album, One Pig, might be the oddest idea yet. Herbert is recording sounds from a single pig's life cycle, from birth to death, and you can even follow the pig yourself at this blog. It is now weaning.

Now Herbert has revealed the fate of the pig in question. The composer told Fact Magazine that the pig "Will be cooked - the head by Heston Blumenthal, who will have a banquet. The bones will be turned into a flute on which to play." This story is inevitably destined to culminate in one very uncomfortable eBay auction title. [Fact]