Jon Appleton

Jon Howard Appleton ( born January 4, 1939 in Los Angeles ) is an American composer and improvising musician who was a pioneer of electro-acoustic music. He also contributed substantially to the development of Synclaviers.

Life and work

Appleton, whose parents worked in the film studios of Holywood, grew first as an orphan. His second wife, the mother married a double bass player of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, who took Appleton to concerts and his piano lessons and his own interest in composing promoted. As communists lost mother and adoptive father in the era of McCarthyism their work. Between 1957 and 1961 he studied at Reed College in Portland (Oregon ), where his fellow students aufführten all the works that he composed. After he had his first degree, he moved to San Francisco where he studied with Andrew Imbrie at the University of California, Berkeley, with Willard Bain (1938-2000) wrote musical comedies and earned his living as a buyer for Macy's. After a year as a music teacher, he was able to continue his studies at the University of Oregon in Homer Keller, Henri Lazarof, Felix Salzer and Robert Trotter. He took advantage of the local electronic music studio and began composing in this genre.

These compositions led in 1966 to his invitation to Columbia University by Vladimir Ussachevski. There, in the center for electronic music, he met Charles Dodge, Emmanuel Ghent and Richard Taruskin know. Soon after, he was hired at Oakland University in Rochester (Michigan) to establish a studio for electronic music there. When he did not support it, he went as a teacher at Harvard College. 1969 published Appleton supported by the producer Bob Thiele his first record at Flying Dutchman - Appleton Syntonic menagerie; in the following year followed (with Don Cherry ) Human Music, one of the first albums that have been linked to the live improvisation and synthesizer music.

In 1970, he received several grants from the Guggenheim, Fulbright and American - Scandinavian Foundation The. In the same year he transferred to Dartmouth College, where a studio for electronic music was built. There he initiated a competition for electronic music, which was held for three years. In 1976, he moved to Stockholm, where he headed the studio for electronic music, but returned after a year in the USA, where he was first in New England Digital Corporation worked on the development of Synclaviers, before he returned in 1978 to the Dartmouth College.

In the next few years, he has given numerous concerts in North America and Europe, where he performed his compositions on this instrument. Many of his works have been premiered at the Festival of the Groupe de Musique Experimental de Bourges. In the 1990s, he helped found the Theremin Center for Electronic Music at the Moscow State Conservatory, where he taught regularly. 2009 Appleton gave up teaching at Dartmore College to teach at Stanford University. He also taught at Keio University ( Mita ) in Tokyo and the University of California, Santa Cruz. In recent years, he focused on the composition of instrumental and choral music in a quasi- romantic style. Two operas which he composed, HOPI: La naissance de Desert and Le Dernier Voyage de Jean- Gallup de la Perouse, were premiered in Nice.

Compositions

  • Apolliana (1970)
  • CCCP ( In Memoriam Anatoly Kuznetsov ) ( 1969)
  • Ce que signifie la déclaration des droits de l' Homme et du citoyen de 1789 pour les hommes et les îles Marquises of citoyens (1989 )
  • Chef d' oeuvre (1967 )
  • Degitaru Ongaku (1983 )
  • Dima Dobralsa Domoy (1996 )
  • Dr Quisling in Stockholm (1971 )
  • Georg Anna 's Fancy (1966 )
  • Georg Anna 's Farewell (1975 )
  • Homage To Orpheus (1969 )
  • " King's Road # 8" ( 1970)
  • Homenaje a Milanes (1987 )
  • Human Music ( 1969)
  • In Deserto (1977 )
  • In Medias Res ( 1978)
  • Mussems Sång (1976 )
  • Newark Airport Skirt ( 1969)
  • Oskuldens Dröm (1985 )
  • ' Otahiti (1973)
  • San Francisco Airport Skirt ( 1996)
  • Spuyten Duyvil (1967 )
  • Stereopticon (1972 )
  • The Sydsing Camklang (1976 )
  • Syntrophia (1977 )
  • Times Square Times Ten (1969 )
  • The Suite for Two Pianos Turkina (1995 )
  • 'U ha'amata ' Atou ' i te Himene (1996 )
  • Yamanotesen To Ko (1997)
  • The Sonata for Two Pianos Turkina (1998)
  • Zoetrope (1974 )
  • Julia ( Nine Pieces for Solo Piano ) (2001 )

Discography

  • Times Square Times Ten (1969 )
  • Appleton Syntonic Menagerie ( Flying Dutchman Records, 1969)
  • Jon Appleton / Don Cherry Human Music ( 1970)
  • The Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer ( Folkways, 1976)
  • Music for Synclavier and Other Digital Systems: With Jon Appleton, Composer ( Folkways, 1978)
  • The Tale of William Mariner and The Snow Queen (1982 )
  • Two melodrama for Synclavier ( Folkways, 1982)
  • Four Fantasies for Synclavier, ( Folkways, 1982)
  • Contes de la mémoire ( empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9635, 1996)
  • Wunderbra! ( with Achim Trust ) (2003 )
  • Syntonic Menagerie 2 (2003)
Electroacoustic music Portland (Oregon) Charles Dodge (composer) Don Cherry (trumpeter) Folkways Records Integrated Authority File
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