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Jon Appleton (1939 - 2022)

Jon Appleton (1939 - 2022)

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Anu Kirk
Jan 31, 2022
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The world is a little quieter today. Jon Appleton has died. He had just celebrated his 83rd birthday on January 4.

I met Jon, or "Professor Appleton", as I knew him, when I was a student at Dartmouth College. Jon taught music, and in particular, "electro-acoustic music", which was exactly the kind of weird, technology-enhanced noise I wanted to learn mor…

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