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.
Human Music
*2024 stock* "This 1969 avant-garde collaboration between trumpeter Don Cherry and electronics pioneer Jon Appleton was originally released on legendary jazz producer Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman label. Consisting of four compositions with the titles…
Appleton Syntonic Menagerie
Tip! *2024 stock* Jon Appleton, born in Hollywood (1939) but mainly active in New York, was one of the pioneers of electronic music. His work on Syntonic Menagerie (Flying Dutchman, 1969), and Human Music (Flying Dutchman, 1970), with Don Cherry, int…
Four Fantasies For Synclavier
*2024 stock* In this 1982 Folkways release, Jon Appleton plays four compositions written for the Synclavier, a digital synthesizer he helped to develop in the late 1970s. “The Sweet Dreams of Miss Pamela Beach” was recorded in a studio using a 24-tra…
The World Music Theatre of Jon Appleton
**2020 stock** This 1974 recording by electro-acoustic music composer Jon Appleton is designed to take the listener to different musical landscapes. Appleton notes differences in context that will make the music more and less effective (“not everythi…
Music for Synclavier and Other Digital Systems
**2020 stock** Electro-acoustic musician/composer Jon Appleton plays a variety of digital instruments which, in his words, “obtain timbres and textures which convey expressive character through my work.” Instruments used in this recording are the Dar…
Don / Jon
Rare outtakes from early pioneering and controversial electronic jazz experiments presented on vinyl for the first time. This previously unpressed music provides and absolutely essential insight into Zen master experimental jazz outrider Don Cherry o…
Contes de la Mémoire
Ten tape and electronic pieces by Jon Appleton spanning 1966 to 1996, from Columbia-Princeton and Moog III studies to the airport interviews of Newark Airport Rock and its 1996 sequel, and the Andrews Sisters collage Chef d’œuvre.