Working under the name Lady Sea and the Golden Ocean Orchestra, composer Courtney Lain and an 11-piece orchestra offered a musical interpretation of the bridge, its history, and the surrounding aquatic environment. Lain’s score accompanied archival footage of the construction of the bridge and the 1937 opening festivities, screened on a specially designed vintage-style TV set.
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Courtney Lain, Sea Vision T.V., 2012 (installation view); photo: Ben Blackwell
Courtney Lain, Sea Vision T.V., 2012 (installation view); photo: Ben Blackwell
Courtney Lain is based in Oakland and New Orleans. She began her musical career playing an electronic organ-accordion hybrid known as an Accorgan Syntara. Recent musical projects include a performance with her Herringbone Orchestra at the Musée Océanographique in Monaco, and the creation of the Marvelous Museum Band for Mark Dion’s exhibition The Marvelous Museum at the Oakland Museum of California, for which she composed an original score to accompany a silent film presentation.