''Sea Tails'' (1983) is a

video installation Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the surrounding environment to affect the audience. Tracing its origins to the birth of video art in the 1970s, it has ...

created as a

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between

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ist Molly Davies, French artist Jackie Matisse, and composer

David Tudor David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music. Life and career Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano with Irma Wolpe and composition with Stefa ...

.Sea Tails: A Video Collaboration – July 13 – September 26, 2004 at the Getty Center
, ''Getty.edu''. Matisse created four various

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s, Davies filmed them being 'flown' underwater (drug behind a boat in the Bahamas near Nassau) for eight days, and Tudor simultaneously recorded sound below and above deck, later layered, mixed, and rerecorded the sounds onto three separate tapes. This was all combined as a six-

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(or three, or rather three-channel video played on six monitorsPagel, David (August 5, 2004).
An underwater playground: Experimental filmmaking, fabric sculptures and avant-garde music resurface in 'Sea Tails.'
, ''Articles.LATimes.com''.), three- channel video installation premiered at the

Pompidou Center The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the (), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of ...

in 1983 and later exhibited at the

Getty Center The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, United States, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust. The $1.3 billion center opened to the public on December 16, 1997, and is well known for its architecture, garde ...

in 2004.

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Audio and Video: Sea Tails (1983)
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