Hirsch Tot

A deer lives, is killed, and then resurrected in the form of digital artifacts.

Using a machine learning model trained on the animal's own calls, the piece transforms the traditional "Hirsch Tot" hunting horn melody — once a sonic marker of death — into the voice of the deer itself.

In this evolving digital soundscape, the calls are processed and shaped into a hybrid sonic identity, later joined by another model trained on the sound of the original hunting horn.

Listeners are invited to lean in and place the horn over the ear, to hear the echoes of the deer shimmering with metallic resonance deep within the horn.