This piece was done as a project for Composing Digital Media, an undergraduate course at the University of Pittsburgh taught by Dr. Alison Patterson. The events recounted hew to the established and reported facts of the Jeff Hall murder of May 1, 2011. I put them into Joe Hall's words, and colored in a few details about personal motivations based on what I think are safe assumptions and high-likelihood hypotheses.

The part of Joe Hall was read by Vijay Perry. Thanks, Vijay.

Audio clips utilized for this piece were from:

60 Minutes, "The Murder of an American Nazi", aired September 25, 2011

YouTube video posted by user "hatecenter", showing Jeff Hall at a neo-Nazi rally in Riverside, California in 2009 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FetNEeqwWPs

freesound.org clips provided by users carminooch ("Neighbors") and multimax2121 ("Police Siren")

Music provided by:

Epic Design, "Monotron Feedback Test 4 Dry"
Brokenkites, "For Loves You've Lost"
Anton Kooistra, "Feedback AF55"
Alison Doyle, "Dear Wes, Remember How It Used To Be"
Random Tape, "Feedback"
LFSaw, "Feedback Study 01-2011"
Death is a Holiday, "Background Music (for a Breakup)"
... and also, some Nazi assholes

For more information, please visit:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/natashavc/when-a-10-year-old-kills-his-nazi-father-whos-to-blame
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201311/joseph-hall-murders-neo-nazi-father-story
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7382310n
http://josephhalllegaldefensefund.org/

Thanks for listening.

Lament for Joe Hall

This is an interview that I did with Justun Palencsar of In the Blood Tattoo on November 27, 2013. He had kindly allowed me to take a few pictures of him for a school project photo essay I was doing on people with religious tattoos, and the primary purpose of this interview was to collect some text to go along with the pictures. I also produced this audio piece as part of a separate assignment, calling for remediation of one assignment into a different medium. The class this was produced for is Composing Digital Media, an undergraduate course at the University of Pittsburgh, taught by Dr. Alison Patterson.

Thanks so much to Justun for taking the time to talk to me.

All music featured was performed by the Last Hope. Songs (in order of inclusion):

747
Brick By Brick
Empires Fall
Consequences of Transgression
Rot-N-Rock-N-Roll
Neither Day Nor Night

For more information, please visit:

www.inthebloodtattoo.com
www.hotmetalbridge.com

Thanks for listening.

MattGrayPitt13

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