Henry Cowell Banshee Music Analysis

For this writing Assignment, before we meet student for Art class, we sent them Henry Cowell banshee music with detail description of why and how the banshee music was written. Sam and I from music appreciation and Alex and Recho form Art class got a chance to discuss in detail what they think about the music, and what kind of art they were going to create for this music. Alex told us, when she listened the music, she felt like she trapped in the cage. The sound of the music is unusual and weird. She was planning to create what she called it “toolat” by suing child doll, clip board, wires, clown, and glue. I asked her how she described this piece of music she heard. She said, “When I listened the music, I felt fear darkness.” The next young artist we meet was Recho. She also pointed out how she felt about this music. Both student from Art …show more content…
We went back after a week to see their creation. Alex called her invention “toolat.” As she planned, she made scary thing from children arm doll trapped into cage. She also used artificial jaws to make a weird sound that made fear sound by turning the spring of the jaw around. On the back of the toolat, she put clown on the circle wire to make it scarier. When I ask her what is the most challenging thing she face to create the toolat, she said that she struggled to attached the arm of the doll in to the toolat. She did very good job. Next we focused on Recho’s work. She made a kind of box which has four windows and a lot of butterfly every side of the box. She named her inventions “window.” She opened the window and showed as inside. There was a small artificial skull which she referred as a dead body, and there was another thing she called it a killer and a red color on the floor symbolized blood. The window was surrounded by death. On the top of the windows, she putted a bell to produce a death