Performing this past weekend at the PRF BBQ Auktoberfyst was a wonderful experience with Nicole Miller on theremin.  The piece that we performed was called A Fast Death in Slow Motion and it is about a fictional character from the 1800′s who commits a bank robbery and murder and after he is caught he is sentenced to be hanged.  The theremin was the soul of the individual and my sounds were the cause of death, the rope, the last breath, the fading of consciousness, the brain fading away and slipping into death’s dark grasp.  Here’s the story of Samuel “Poker Face” Hayworth…

“On the 1st day of October 1884, Samuel “Poker Face” Hayworth is to be hanged for an attempted bank robbery and the murder of William P. Worthington.  Samuel Hayworth was also wanted for committing multiple bank robberies and the possible murder of Jeb Williams.  Samuel Hayworth was born on the 17th day of June 1853 and has no known survivors to mention.  A brief memorial service will be held at Klas Restaurant.”

Even the content lives of The Harmoniums were once disrupted by a man, peeling them off the cave walls of Mercury.  Life is a precious and fragile gift that we often take for granted whether it’s our own because of being too distracted with what our world thinks is important or whether it’s someone else’s life due to greed.  Is there murder without greed?  I’m not sure if I believe it’s possible.