Ahead of the first live performance of his new album, the Horse, New Scientist visited matthewherbert, where he discussed the rationale behind the work and allowed us to play with the fragments of horse used to create the album. Watch the full video:
utilises unconventional sounds to create music. Previous projects have used samples of the human body or manipulated recordings of a pig to explore the life cycle of farmed animals from birth to plate. His latest album,, uses the skeleton of a horse to explore the foundations of music and our relationship with the natural world.in the UK, we visited Herbert in his studio, where he discussed the rationale behind the work and allowed us to play with the fragments of horse used to create the album.
Having bought a horse skeleton on the internet, Herbert commissioned instrument-maker Henry Dagg to create flutes from the horse’s thigh bones. He had bows crafted from its ribs and horsehair, made horse-skin drums and built an organic drum machine that uses various bones to generate different beats.
The result is a rich, multilayered soundscape that tells the story of the evolution of human music “from the very earliest beginnings in caves with bone flutes and skins to electronics”, says Herbert. However, as with his earlier works, the album explores deeper ideas too. “We’ve got a completely damaged and exploitative and terrifying relationship with the
natural world, where we see ourselves as separate and apart from it,” he says. And, as such, “the record – and the horse – becomes a metaphor for climate change”., featuring 12 orchestral musicians, will take place on 18 August at the Edinburgh International Festival.
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