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Jon Appleton, who helped develop the digital synthesizer, has died. He was an innovator in what he called "electro-acoustic music," using effects to reshape natural sounds and field recordings.
Jon Appleton, who helped develop the digital synthesizer, has died. He was an innovator in what he called "electro-acoustic music," using effects to reshape natural sounds and field recordings.
A composer, professor and pioneer in electronic and electro-acoustic music, who helped develop the Synclavier, an early digital synthesizer, has died. Jon Appleton died Jan 30 in White River Junction, Vt., at the age of 83, his son JJ Appleton said Wednesday. Appleton, who was born in Los Angeles, became…
Appleton helped develop the Synclavier, an early digital synthesizer.
Jon Appleton "regarded his electronic music as a kind of folk music for our age," said a Dartmouth College colleague.