Heston Blumenthal is reportedly planning to help musician Matthew Herbert make a woodwind instrument out of the bones of a dead pig for his next album.

Herbert announced that he will raise and slaughter the pig before the celebrity chef prepares it for consumption, after which the bones will be converted into an instrument, Fact magazine reports.

The tool will then be used to record new LP One Pig. Herbert said: "[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."

The artist added: "There is all this locked-up potential in sound. That is what my work is about – it is the artist's responsibility to make connections, no matter how absurd they are and where they lead us to."