Flutes, midi-microphone, sampler, composed exclusively for Jos Zwaanenburg, 12 mins.

The title is inspired by René Magritte’s painting, Ceci n’est pas une pipe. It wasn’t a pipe because it was a painting, one supposes. Here pronunciation of the title can also play a role for if one puts an accent on ‘une’, it infers there can be more than one flute and that’s the case here. Zwaanenburg plays different flutes in different ranges and from different cultures, sometimes with different mouthpieces. Furthermore, at times, using tracking equipment, he plays the flute but we hear … other instruments as in ‘ceci n’est pas une flûte’.

The piece, exclusively written for Zwaanenburg during the period when they performed as a duo, La Zététique (the L from Landy and the Z from Zwaanenburg) offers the performer and the listener a journey incorporating borrowed world music, various sonic elements and inevitably, with Zwaanenburg, extended techniques. It appeared on the CD La Zététique (Erasmus WVH083).