Morgan Hall is an experimental musician based in Athens, Greece. He makes Noise, Ambient & Drone, all baptized on the altar of Power Electronics.

F.B.I. Pathology Report w/ Morgan Hall

noise injektion

002

In this episode of F.B.I. Pathology Report, we explore the curious case of serial-murderer David Berkowitz a.k.a Son Of Sam, .44 Caliber Killer. Son Of Sam's span of killings [6 killed | 11 wounded] took place in NYC and lasted 1 year [1976-1977], causing an unstoppable terror to the Big Apple's citizens.
Claims of participation on Satanic Cults and accusations [by himself] of being forced to do the killings by taking orders from a demon who possessed his neighbor's dog, named Sam.
He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and later on admitted that the dog-demon story was a hoax. In conclusion, it's believed that Son of Sam enjoyed the killings, moreover the attention and popularity he got from the press, [which he communicated with, by sending letters to be published] and received some sort of a ""celebrity-like"" status. A tactic and habit we'll see later on that other famous murderers got fond of. 
This episode is clothed with a touch of questionable-and-curious driven 80's synth melodies, coming back and forth along classic pop tunes from the era which resemble a forgotten NYC nightmare on the streets, circling around a certain sense of blurred agony and answers, slowly becoming more and more bleak by noise and distortion on the surface but on the very interior as well, reaching a deadlock and back again.
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STRAIGHT PANIC's personal synopsis:
Prompted purely with ""Son of Sam,"" Thomas Boettner has generated a time-warped vehicular tour through the attributed murders, via the top chart hits on the date of each occurrence, shot through detuned radios, field recordings, and palpably uneasy synth lines meant to replicate the social dread and fear generated during the years of the SON OF SAM murders. Rather than relying on brute aggression or ""harshness,"" this is a journey through time, degraded and decayed, where the markers of pop culture are used to add implication and intention to what were deemed ""senseless,"" ""unfathomable,"" ""monstrous."" Is it irony or simply chance that the Manhattans ""Kiss and Say Goodbye"" was number one on the day Lauria and Valenti were killed? Rod Stewart's ""Tonight's The Night"" was number one when Demasi and Lomino were shot down. Collective unconscious, occult ritual, Psy-Op, who can say. Much like Maury Terry sought to discern, the entire ordeal is still a rat's nest of half-leads, circumstances, and too-weird-to-not-be-true coincidences. Hello from the guttters.

https://soundcloud.com/straightpanic

F.B.I. Pathology Report w/ Morgan Hall invites STRAIGHT PANIC (20.04.23)

004

On this episode of F.B.I. Pathology Report we explore the religious sect/cult Order Of The Solar Temple ['s Mass Suicides and Murders] who claimed to be ideologically based upon the epitome of Knights Templar [:Founded around 1118 A.D. as a monastic military order evoted to the protection of pilgrims, an act mostly known as "the Crusades", (even though they were considered "Protectors of the Christians") they allegedly worshipped the Baphomet deity, which later on got comprised by Western & occultist traditions and subcultures, some may call "Heresies" in Latin. Also, Knights Templar were (partly) responsible for (now) modern superstitions such as the Friday the 13th, a date they suffered vanishing tortures whilst their post activities are yet to be confirmed & to this day, a mystery.]
On October 5, 1994, Tony Dutoit [Member of the Order Of The Solar Temple], killed his 3 month old son in Morin-Heights, Quebec, by using a wooden stake, a murder that's rumored Joseph Di Mambro [One of the Sect's 3 leaders/founders] ordered, because of the belief the baby identified as the Antichrist is being described in the Bible, and would supposedly prevent Di Mambro of carrying out his "sacred" aims. Afterwards, 53 inner-circle members committed suicide in Switzerland and Quebec. [15 by the consumption of poison, 30 by bullets or smothering & 8 others by other means.] In Switzerland, many of the victims were found in a secret underground chapel heavily decorated with mirrors and other items of Templar symbolism whilst being dressed in the order's ceremonial robes and were in a circle, feet together, heads outward, most with plastic bags tied over their heads; they had each been shot in the head.
Later on, from 1995 until the sect's suspension of plotting ritual suicide in 1998, another 21 more members around the globe took their own lives as part of the cult's beliefs.
Starting with an infamous Christopher Lee interview about Black Magic, as in the Old Testament, it begins with light, a metaphorical expression of birth, and continues/ends in the bleak obscure complex of New Testament's fingerprint on human consciousness, dressed with trancy and ritualistic rhythmic & non-rhythmic tunes and soundscapes, where underneath this disguise's eerie sense, lies a trascendental PTSD [also in a form the human mind's superstitious propensities can translate as a possesion] and a few blank pages, yet to be written.
Morgan Hall is an experimental musician based in Athens, Greece. He makes Noise, Ambient & Drone, all baptized on the altar of Power Electronics.

Brandon Artus is a noise artist and circuit designer from Denver, CO.
Making up one half of the Trust Collective imprint, Brandon has put measurable 
effort into the noise/experimental scene since 2019, including a myriad of releases 
under different monikers; the most notable of these being Maltreatment, 
TØLERANT, Singularity, and Barren Column.
This is parallel to his slowly blossoming company, Abrasive Industries, an 
alternative instrument and synth company that has also existed in some form since 
2019. Dedicated to making tools (contact microphones, shakers, percussion boxes 
and noisy synth circuits) for noise artists, sound designers and anybody curious 
enough to cross the line.

https://www.instagram.com/barren.column/  
https://orcd.co/verminwomb   
https://trustcollective.bandcamp.com/

F.B.I. Pathology Report  Invites Brandon Artus (30.06.23)

007

Âmes Sanglantes is an underground noise project started by Pierre-Marc Tremblay in September 1996. This was a valley for noise and many of the underground bands went even further into obscurity. Yet the doors of the international noise network were about to break open with the arrival of the internet calamity. Ames was highly active on the MSBR guestbook days of noise where punters would ""sign"" the guestbook and leave adverts and make contact with other loners. An electronic version of a bulletin board with classified ads for ""piano lessons"", ""English tutors"", and bands ""seeking lead singers"". A melting pot of grindcore, absurdist mail art, and industrial punk, this ""pay-to-play"" scene consisted of open-minded strangers who would send one another one half of a c60 on principle to other strangers to make a split tape. 99-track compilation CDs where the artist would submit a piece under one minute, pay a small fee, and receive one or two copies of the disc in exchange were the only hope of promotion. Many times, open call compilation submissions would fail to materialize and masters that hadn't been duplicated would be lost. As the '90s came to a close, the last dying gasp of the pre-internet world finally collapsed. Mr. Tremblay immersed himself in the black metal band Akitsa, which rose to cult status as being one of the ""real"" bands from North America in the third wave of black metal from the late '90s. But make no mistake, this was a black metal full of punk, noise, and industrial influences that Mr. Tremblay carried along from his insane past in the DIY tape culture meltdown world of harsh noise and freak-out grind bands. A change took place and Âmes Sanglantes shed its nonsensical skin to adopt a darker, more focused industrial and ambient noise. This new transformation was equally informed by Cold Meat Industry alongside RRRecords and the early days of Alien8 recordings, an imprint close to Tremblay during his first experiments with youthful electronics. Now having secured himself cult status in the black metal world, Âmes Sanglantes has returned as Bloody Souls. Âmes Sanglantes is also a live project that has shared the stage with artists such as Kevin Drumm, Alberich, MSBR, Tim Hecker, Godflesh, and more.

On this episode of F.B.I. Pathology Report we explore the Dyatlov Pass incident [ ""Death of the Dyatlov Group"" ], an event that occured on early February, 1959 in Soviet Russia.
An experienced trekking group of 9 Soviet hikers were found dead in the Northern Ural Mountains, apparently under mysterious circumstances. Soviet authorities' investigation resulted in the determination of: 6 of them have died of hypothermia but the rest of the 3
had been killed by physical trauma [ 1. skull damage 2. severe chest trauma 3. small crack in skull ]. 4 of the bodies were found lying in running water in a creek, and 3 of these 4 had damaged soft tissue of the head and face – 2 of the bodies had missing eyes, one had a missing tongue, and another one had missing eyebrows. 
Conclusion splitted in several folds, with the authorities maintaining the cause of deaths being a ""compelling natural force"", and theories surrounding the incident including animal attacks, avalanche, hypothermia, infrasound-induced panic, katabatic winds & military involvement.

https://www.instagram.com/amessanglantes/

https://amessanglantes.bandcamp.com/?from=search&search_item_id=1258769037&search_item_type=b&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=2874395778&search_page_no=1&search_rank=1&search_sig=705bd0028d3e33ce989f72b5d5825fe6

https://www.discogs.com/artist/222032-%C3%82mes-Sanglantes

F.B.I. Pathology Report 007 w/ Morgan Hall invites Âmes Sanglantes (17.10.23)

009

 On this episode of F.B.I. Pathology Report we explore the conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998, known as The Troubles.
For this episode, I decided not to write a description for it's facts, 
placing a selected piece from a poem by Douglas McClarty instead.

"Yet I remembered when we all seemed to be free
When we played together Seamus, Paddy and me
At a time when our names didn't condemn us to blame
If you were a child of the troubles.
Both sides trying to score more killing points
A grotesque game played out each day
Why should they make us all pay
If you were a child of the troubles.
Somehow one day the killing all suddenly stopped
Then it was just shouting about who was to blame
It's much better than bombs, bullets and blood
If you were a child of the troubles."

 The ironic resemblance of past & present situations that reminds of the famous quote “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” by George Santayana [The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man,] & a writing found on Maurizio Bianchi's industrial masterpiece [& one of the pioneer artists & records of the genre] "Symphony For a Genocide" [1981], stated as the moral of the work itself, quote 
"The past punishment is the inevitable blindness of the present".

Sin of The Father/Hands Of Providence is a multifaceted project based in London.
Operating and collaborating with Islington ARts and performance collective Chronic Illness. Using array of contrasts/juxtapositions and contradictions within his artwork & audio projects, his approach is to explore duality of things found along the way.

https://www.instagram.com/sinofthefather/
https://www.instagram.com/chronicillness_sewage/
https://soundcloud.com/marco-conway

F.B.I. Pathology Report 009 w/ Morgan Hall invites  Sin of The Father (19.01.24)

On this episode of F.B.I. Pathology Report, we're auditory exploring the case of Harold Shipman (January 14, 1946 - January 13, 2004), commonly known as "Dr. Death".
Shipman was an English general practitioner & medical doctor who was sentenced to life imprisonment, for approximately murdering at least 215 people, and possibly as many as 260. All his victims had been his patients, a span between/from 1975 to 1998. The key moment of the insertion of the so-called "factor X" of his inspiration for his sadistic killing spree & modus operandi, experts believe that was the moment when he closely observed the  procedure of his dying mother being administered morphine by a doctor, to ease her suffering. He commited suicide in his prison cell, 4 years after his conviction.

Lussuria is an ambient industrial project led by Jim Mroz. Active since 2007, the music of Lussuria shows a multitude of ways to build moods and evoke states of anxiety and threat. Most of the music is created by means of building intricate multi-layered forms and loops, an experimental collage of elements from various origins. In Lussuria, you can hear a multitude of sources, such as metallic textures, slow power drone structures, and trance rhythms. The atmosphere created can be contemplative, uplifting, and ethereal, as well as crude and direct. 
Through several albums and releases on Hospital Productions and compilation appearances on labels such as LIES, Pole Group, and Self Abuse. In addition to worldwide performances, Lussuria has been established as an acclaimed act in the electronic music world. Additionally, Jim has also been a contributor to acclaimed Prurient albums Rainbow Mirror and Frozen Niagara Falls (Profound Lore)
To date, Lussuria has performed at noted events and venues such as Berghain (Germany), Rewire Festival (Holland), Wroclaw Industrial Festival (Poland), Nitsa (Spain), CDMX Earthquake Fundraiser (Mexico), and the 20th anniversary of Hospital Productions in Brooklyn and Los Angeles (USA). In addition successful tours throughout the United States and Europe were completed.

https://lussuria.bandcamp.com/?from=search&search_item_id=2409969908&search_item_type=b&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=3168018390&search_page_no=0&search_rank=1&logged_in_menubar=true


https://www.discogs.com/artist/1541485-Lussuria-2

F.B.I. Pathology Report 010 w/ Morgan Hall & Lussuria (11.02.24)

Painter affiliated to the French contemporary art scene and head of Flesh and Bones records, Cheyenne Schiavone masters at gathering the very roots and legacy of proto-techno music and exhales it into cinematic selections with a wide spectrum of genres, from industrial to classic music and everything in between : the soundtrack of movies that never were.

https://www.instagram.com/cheyenneschiavone_/
https://soundcloud.com/cheyenneschiavone

F.B.I. Pathology Report 011 w/ Morgan Hall & Cheyenne Schiavone (15.03.24)

On this episode of F.B.I. Pathology Report we auditory explore the case of Richard Francis Cottingham (born November 25, 1946), better known as the Torso Killer, the New York Ripper & the Times Square Killer. He was convicted for the murder of 18 young women & girls between 1967-1980.

On 2009 (decades after his 5 convictions) he told a journalist that he at least killed 80 women in various regions of U.S., baptizing those murders as "perfect murders", while he personally claims he has killed as many as 100,  by taking them to a remote location, binding, torturing, gagging & stabbing before killing them by asphyxiation or strangulation.

Cottingham is most famously known for the bizarre crime scenes he'd leave behind, from the mutilated bodies of victims, removal of breasts, severed heads and hands to preventing their identification, to the arson of an apartment (along with a body of a victim in it) as part of his attempt to get rid of evidence.

Murders that received further attention (and led to his arrest & conviction) were those who happened across the area of Times Square, which in the 70s was popular for its peep shows & live sex acts.

M.I.A. was created by Raphael Kervella in 2019 in the filthy streets of Brest, west of France. After a first tape "Multiracial Mess" in 2020, followed a series of tapes and CDs including two splits with Bizarre Uproar and a tape "I Love You" on Phage Tapes. It addresses the madness of modern society, mental illness & more. More recently love or more personal topics have been attached. M.I.A. will always be a vehicle towards the neurosis of its creator.

https://www.instagram.com/mia_noise_/

F.B.I. Pathology Report 012 w/ Morgan Hall & M.I.A. (16.04.24)

On this episode of F.B.I. Pathology Report we're auditory exploring the infamous escapes of Ted Bundy, by the time he was under custody in Colorado, following up with subsequent manhunts.

(Escape 1)  On Tuesday, June 8, 1977, during a recess in the court proceedings at Pitky County Courthouse, the then-accused killer Ted Bundy asked to take some time at a partitioned are at the back of the courtroom which it was being used as law library, (since he had been acting as his own attorney in the local case and by all accounts had been trusted to study in the law library during his on-going and frequent court appearances,) then, when no one was watching, he leaped from an open window of the second floor and escaped custody, (for which its said he practiced on/for, by repeatedly jumping off his prison cell's bed,) following up a 6-day manhunt until his recapture after walking over the top of Aspen mountain, hiding in an unused cabin near Castle Creek, and then taking a car, which led to its accidental recapture (2 policemen were looking for another individual convicted of similar felonies. Suspecting a drunk driver, they pulled over a car to witness the exhausted Ted Bundy wearing sunglasses and a nose bandage as a disguise.)

*Fun Fact: After his first recapture, when asked of how he survived during the manhunt, Bundy mentioned he found a guy camping in the woods of Aspen Mountain with his friends, and in their absence, Bundy stole food and left. The guy camping was no other than actor Kurt Russell (The Thing, Deathproof, Escape From New York), who by going to get a beer, avoided getting into a dangerous confrontation with Bundy.

(Escape 2)  On the dawn of New Year's Eve of 1977-78, while he had filled his bed with blankets, books and papers in order to make it appear like he was sleeping, Bundy, (who also had shockingly managed to lose 11 kilos in 6 days), climbed through to the ventilation ducts, where carved around an opening that already existed in the ceiling of his prison cell (meant for a light fixture that wasn't installed), and managed to crawl through its almost 10 inch hole, 30 feet through the attic of the one-story building, over another cell, the jail kitchen, and then climb down through a large hole in the closet of the jailer's apartment, who wasn't present at that time.

Whilst being added to the list of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, after escaping the jail for the second time, Bundy boarded a flight to Chicago, took a train to Ann Arbor, Michigan, drove south to Atlanta and got on a bus to Tallahassee, Florida, where he got recaptured and convicted for his shocking crimes, marking him as one of the most notorious criminals & serial killers of the late 20th century.

Volunteer Coroner is the alias of Preston Weippert, co-operator of Trust Collective, an experimental and noise label from Colorado, as well as the drummer for death metal outfit Of Feather And Bone. Volunteer Coroner began as a project in 2018, and has covered lots of sonic ground, from harsh noise to ambient scores. new releases from Volunteer Coroner to be released sometime late 2024.

https://www.instagram.com/v_coroner/ 

volunteercoroner.bandcamp.com

trustcollective.bandcamp.com

https://www.discogs.com/artist/6379113-Preston-Weippert

F.B.I. Pathology Report 013 w/ Morgan Hall & Volunteer Coroner (18.05.24)

Fade Radio is an independent platform that experiments with diverse music approaches expressed through DJ sets, live performances, podcasts, and art-related projects. Aiming to build a community-oriented network, it operates as a core that aspires to support independent artists and creatives.