Banshee and Moths (2022)

4 minutes 28 seconds

A duet between Margaret Leng Tan playing The Banshee (Henry Cowell) and Eiko's Night With Moths (camera by Rebekkah Palov) in a performance of The Duet Project: Distance Is Malleable at NYU Skirball on April 16, 2022.

Camera by Yiru Chen and Shibaji Dattagupta
Edit by Eiko Otake

The Banshee was composed by Henry Cowell in 1925. The Banshee is inspired by the Irish legend of a she-spirit whose shrieks and moans to warn of an impending death in the family.