House music producer, Matthew Herbert, is know for thinking up uncanny concepts for his work as a dance music producer. On 2001's Bodily Functions, Herbert sampled noises from the human body, mutated and processed some to unrecognizable proportions while leaving other sounds untouched, and crafted a danceable piece of work. With Herbert's 2006 album, Scale, Matthew recorded his musician playing their parts in, lack of better words, extreme conditions: one drummer was recorded playing underwater, another while flying in a hot air balloon, and another while riding in a car going 100 miles an hour. He also filled the album with field recordings of sounds like gas pumps, switches levers and the sort.
On his newest project, Herbert is at work making an audible life "journey" of a pig, which you'll be able to dance to of course. The concept is to make an audible documentation of a pigs life, set to electronic dance music. Except not everyone is happy with his latest piece of work. The thing is, Hebert could not find a slaughter house/butcher who would allow him to record the dying squeals of the pig he was documenting. People deemed it unethical and butchers were weary of Herbert's motives with the recordings. But anyway, the show must go on. Matthew Herbert will release the oinky album without the death sounds but all other pig-life sound intact...morphed and mutated into groovy house beats. You can follow the progress of this project over at the Herbert Pig Blog . A release date has not been set for the album yet.
SPOILER ALERT!
The pig is dead.
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