Jon Appleton

Jon Appleton (1939-2022) was an American composer of electro-acoustic music, born in Los Angeles. He taught at Dartmouth College from 1967, where he founded one of the first electronic music studios in the United States, and he worked with Sydney Alonso and Cameron Jones on the Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer, which led to the Synclavier, the first commercial digital synthesizer. Appleton studied at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in 1966 and directed the Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm in the mid-1970s.