I wanted to capture the experience of gun hunting for deer in Wisconsin. I first wanted to set the stage with a stationary recording of the ambiance of the forest during opening morning, the sounds of nature contrasted with distant booms of gunshots. Then I brought in some conversation I captured while the deer was being prepped to be skinned, it starts warm and comical but as the skinning starts the recording gets more somber. I wanted to end the mix with a dose of the brutal reality of taking the life of an animal. I wanted the audio to come from within a sculpture of a hanging deer carcass to ground the piece in a physical element.
I wanted to make a simple composition that transitioned from one aspect of the hunt to another.
The mix is made up of three very long recordings (between 1-3 hours) each individually compressed into shorter tracks and then blended
together.
