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Jon Appleton

Real Name:
Jon Howard Appleton
Profile:
Jon H. Appleton (Jan. 4, 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA) is a composer, an author and a professor. He studied at Reed College, at University of California (with Andrew W. Imbriethe), University of Oregon (with Homer Keller and Robert Trotter) & Columbia University (with William J. Mitchell, Mario Davidovsky & Vladimir Ussachevsky).
He taught at Dartmouth College since 1967, where he has been the Arthur Virgin Professor of Music since 1992, chair of the music department and director of the electroacoustic music graduate program. He also taught as a Visiting Professor at Brooklyn College in 1988, in Theremin Center for Electro-Acoustic Music at the Moscow Conservatory of Music in 1993 and at Keio University in Tokyo in 1995-96 and 1998. He wrote books and articles on the relationship between music and technology.
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Releases:
Appleton Syntonic Menagerie (LP)   Flying Dutchman 1969
Appleton Syntonic Menagerie (7", Promo)   Flying Dutchman 1969
Human Music (Album) (2 versions)   Flying Dutchman ... 1970
The World Music Theatre Of Jon Appleton (Album) (2 versions)   Folkways Records 1974
Music For Synclavier And Other Digital Systems (Album) (3 versions)   Folkways Records 1978
Four Fantasies For Synclavier (Album) (2 versions)   Folkways Records 1982
Two Melodramas For Synclavier (Album) (2 versions)   Folkways Records 1982
Contes De La Mémoire (CD)   Empreintes DIGITALes 1996
Appleton Syntonic Menagerie 2 (CD)   Phonomena Audio Arts & Multiples 2004
Appears On:
The Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer Electronic Music (LP, Comp)   Folkways Records 1976
Tracks Appear On:
The Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer Electronic Music (Comp) (2 versions) Georganna's Farewell Folkways Records 1976
The Dartmouth Composers (LP) In Medias Res Music From Dartmouth 1981
CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 6: Compositions By Jon Appleton, David Evan Jones, Paul Moravec, Christian Wolff (CD, Comp) Brush Canyon, Degitaru... Centaur Records 1990
CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 11: The Virtuoso In The Computer Age II (CD, Comp) Homenaje A Milanés Centaur Records 1991
Cultures Electroniques 6 Quadrivium (2xCD) Stereopticon Le Chant Du Monde 1991
CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 15: The Virtuoso In The Computer Age V (CD, Comp) Pacific Rimbombo (1992) Centaur Records 1994
RRR 500 (LP, Comp) Untitled RRRecords 1998
Unofficial Releases:
Human Music (CDr)   Creel Pone 2006
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