Sea Tails (1983) is a six-screen, three-channel video installation that combines electronic music by David Tudor with footage taken by Molly Davies of Jackie Matisse's kites moving through the ocean.  The collaboration initially took place in February 1983 with David Tudor, Molly Davies, and Jackie Matisse working in Nassau for a period of 8 days to record the video of the underwater kites and ocean sounds.

Monnier’s kites were of four types:

1. 1)small bright colorful kites
   

2. 2)large filter paper painted kites
   

3. 3)large bright kites made of sail cloth
   

4. 4)large dark kites made of sail cloth
   

The kites were pulled underwater by divers (hidden from the camera).

Tudor recorded sounds of shrimp, wind, coral and splashes which were edited down to 12 sound sources used for the video.  These sources were used to create three 7 minute segments adding up to 22 minutes duration (the length of the video).

The work was exhibited at Centre Pompidou (Paris) in June 1983, Frankfurt (1983), and also at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris (NYC) - September 1986.

ARTISTS: Molly Davies, Jackie Matisse

SPACE REQUIREMENT: TBD

EQUIPMENT REQUIRED: TBD

BUDGET: TBD

Reference: “Hearing Spaces: David Tudor’s Collaboration on Sea Tails” - Nancy Perloff (Leonard Music Journal, Vol. 14, 2004)