In late November, André 3000 released “New Blue Sun,” a CD immediately dubbed his “flute album”—though clearly as much for the picture on the cover as for the sound of the instrument 3000 plays. Nonetheless, as a lapsed, bad flutist, I decided to listen to the music with a current, extremely good flutist: Eric Lamb, prolific soloist, former core member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, and professor of flute at the Gulda School of Music in Vienna. At my place in Berlin, we cracked open a bottle of cheap bubbly and talked about Feldmanesque dramaturgy, nostalgic electronics, and the things through which one blows.
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