Appleton, Jon
Colby Leider (Author)
(Howard)( b Los Angeles, Jan 4, 1939; d White River Junction, VT, Jan 30, 2022). American composer. Born into a family of musicians, he studied the piano and began composing as a child. He attended Reed College (BA 1961) and studied privately in Berkeley with Imbrie (1961-2). While at the University of Oregon (MA 1965), he worked with Homer Keller and began composing electronic music, an interest that led him to the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (1965-6), where his teachers included Ussachevsky. After teaching for a year at Oakland University (Rochester, Michigan), he joined the music department at Dartmouth College (1967), where he founded the Bregman Electronic Music Studio. In the 1970s he collaborated on the development of the Synclavier, a polyphonic digital synthesizer used in live performance. Based on the Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer designed for use at the Bregman Studio, the Synclavier was the first commercially manufactured instrument to use microcomputers. Appleton also served as director of the Stiftelsen Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm (..
Encyclopedia Article, 2001
Oxford Music Online, 20010120
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001