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1973 FANCYE by Composer: David Jaeger and Artist: Carol Sutton
And composers: The Canadian Electronic Ensemble or the CEE
Music for Organ and computer synthesized sound, moving sculpture, still sculpture and lights,
for New Music Concerts, Concert Hall Organ - Inaugural Concerts,

Location / Place: Edward Johnson Building, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
When: November 1973
Newspaper Review; Coverage: The Globe and Mail, William Littler
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Edward Johnson Building, Concert Hall Organ, Inaugural Concerts, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto,Program Booklet, 1973, scan by Carol Sutton© copyright
 
inaugural-concert-organ-univ-to-jpg - Program Booklet, ©Carol Sutton
 
 
Excerpt from:
Edward Johnson Building Concert Hall Organ
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INAUGURAL CONCERTS
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Faculty of Music
University of Toronto
 
PROGRAM Quotes:
"Fancy - for Organ and Computer-Synthesized Sound .... . .. . . . . .David Jaeger
(Commission premiere)
 
"An English renaissance form of music, 'Fancy' is used as the basis for a joint work ­ music and visual ­ by David Jaeger and artist, Carol Sutton Martin. The visible part consists of flakes of coloured light (soft colours of a Japanese fruit dessert) produced by light organs linked to the computer electronic tape and cast upon two distinct sculptural forms. The first form: hanging mirrors which move freely wit the wind (as the organ is a wind instrument). The second form: high silver-surfaced columns, scattered at random on stage, catching light and reflecting it back to the audience. The composer and artist wish to thank Pennina Coppersmith, architect; Fred Baldwin, builder; James Swanston, carpenter; Martin Liefhebber, draftsman; Henry Zomer, plastics consultant; the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio, Gustav Ciamaga, director, David Jaeger, graduate of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, is with the national music department, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation."
 
Derek Healey, organ
Program notes by Willis Noble." End quotes.
 
 

Fancye, by composer David Jaeger & artist Carol Sutton, fancye_jaeger_sutton_univT.jpg 1973, Carol Sutton Martin, artist, now Carol Sutton, University of Toronto with organ & electronic music, Copyrights©fancye_jaeger_sutton_univT.jpg, PHOTOGRAPH by Carol Sutton,
Copyrights © and All Rights Reserved, Fancye installation, 1973, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1973
 
 
Title: Fancye, Preparation for performance on December 2, 1973.
Composer: David Jaeger and Canadian Electronic Ensemble
The Stage set with friend helpers; Stephen Harris (just left of center stage) a Master craftsman, carpenter and wood worker: & (right of stage is) Sylvia Grossman, & (far right stage, placing a fan onto of a music stand behind mirrors is) Jim Montgomery of the CCE [Composer James Montgomery, aka Mudfish].
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Notes; David Jaeger
CMC - Canadian Music Centre
Find A Composer - David Jaeger- includes: Biography,
*Fancye
1973
Program Notes
David Jaeger
Fancye , 1973
Commissioned by: University of Toronto Faculty of Music,
with the assistance of the Ontario Arts Council
Premiered by: Derek Healey, organ, Electronics by the
Canadian Electronic Ensemble, Toronto, December 2, 1973
 
Quote from Canadian Music Centre;
[web:http://www.musiccentre.ca/index.cfm]
2010: LINK: http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=score.FA_dsp_details&bibliographyid=2797&dsp_page=1
Notes added by Carol Sutton-Martin, now Carol Lorraine Sutton:
 
Additional NOTES ADDED BY CAROL L. SUTTON: February, 2010:
 
The first form consisted of three wooden tower structures; each structure held suspended and linked mirrors, in six rows across and six rows down, forming a square of 36 mirrors on each of the three structures. These mirrors moved by fans placed in front of them and off the stage level, Projected onto the mirrors were lights linked to the electronic music. In front of the lamps were colored films, all in soft pastel colours inspired by Japanese fruit desserts, and as the mirrors moved they threw little spots of flickering lights all over the entire auditorium in the Edward Johnson Building, bathing it in a sea of soft moving colours.
 
Carol wishes to thank all those who helped her and David in this performance. Not mentioned in the program notes were, Stephen Harris, a Master craftsman, carpenter and wood worker: & Sylvia Grossman and her son Josh, Gayle Randall and Sally Jaeger. Also the members of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble or CEE, composers; James Montgomery [Jim Montgomery, a.k.a. Mudfish]; Larry Lake, and David Grimes. Without their help this art and music work would have never happened.
 
To my knowledge this 1973 work 'Fancye' by Jaeger and Sutton; is the first major collaboration in Canada that included art with electronic music and traditional instruments, ever preformed for a large public venue.
 

 

 

Fancye, by composer David Jaeger & artist Carol Sutton, fancye_jaeger_sutton_univT.jpg 1973, Carol Sutton Martin, artist, now Carol Sutton, University of Toronto with organ & electronic music, Copyrights©fancye3_jaeger_sutton.jpg -feb5

 

1973 FANCYE by Composer: David Jaeger and Artist: Carol Sutton

 

The stage is ready for performance.

fancye3_jaeger_sutton.jpg -feb5


David Jaeger, photo by Carol Sutton©-david-jaeger_carol-sutton.jpg David Jaeger, photo by Carol Sutton©
david-jaeger_carol-sutton.jpg
 
David Jaeger: LINK: David Jaeger in the Canadian Music Centre; -Biography: http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=composer.FA_dsp_biography&authpeopleid=490&by=J
 
Davud Jaeger Sample Works included: Fancye 1973 - Sound / Music recording
http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=composer.FA_dsp_sample&authpeopleid=490&by=J
 


 

Automatic Duo©, Jaeger, Montgomery, CEE, artist Carol Sutton, Randall, Univ. of Toronto, 1972,Automatic_Duo1973CEE_Sutton.jpg-Copyrights©

 

Automatic Duo, with music by David Jaeger and James Montgomery & the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, (CEE) &

sculpture by artist Carol Sutton Martin, (now Carol Sutton); mirrors with spaklers on stands, being lit by Gayle Randall.

Date: 1972

Place: New Music Concerts - Multi- program, Edward Johnson Building, University of Toronto

 

Automatic_Duo1973CEE_Sutton.jpg

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Also see:
1972 AUTOMATIC DUO by David Jaeger and James Montgomery & Canadian Electronic Ensemble,
Visual accompaniment by Carol Sutton
Place: New Music Concerts - Multi- program, Edward Johnson Building, University of Toronto
 
& another performance:
March 1, 1973, Thursday
'AUTOMATIC DUO by David Jaeger and James Montgomery with visual accompaniment by Carol Sutton
Place: Glendon College, Toronto, Ontario,
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More on James Montgomery, a.k. a. Mudfish by Larry Lake,
http://www3.sympatico.ca/larry_lake/mudfishnobars.htm
 
&
Music and Art Teaching, done by James Montgomery and Carol Sutton
 
1974 'Creative Artists In teaching a combination of 'New Music with New Art'
The Schools' with composer James Montgomery and artist Carol Sutton', in the Etobicoke School
Board, Ontario Arts Council Grant Project Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada

Martin Liefhebber architectural drawing of Fancye

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