Jon Appleton Archive, Vol. 1: 1959-1965

Album Title: Jon AppletonVol. 1 1959-1965

 
Track 1 - Synaeresis

Reed live performance, May 30, 1959. Text and narration by Philip Johnson.

 
Track 2 - Primary experience A

Third electro-acoustic piece composed using primitive tape techniques and recordings of children. Early tape music piece using sounds of children composed at the University of Oregon.

 
Track 3 - Primary experience B

Third electro-acoustic piece composed using primitive tape techniques and recordings of children. Early tape music piece using sounds of children composed at the University of Oregon.

 
Track 4 - Primary experience C

Third electro-acoustic piece composed using primitive tape techniques and recordings of children. Early tape music piece using sounds of children composed at the University of Oregon.

 
Track 5 - Study no. 1

Composer's first electro-acoustic work composed using primitive equipment in the audio-visual department of the University of Oregon.

 
Track 6 - Study no. 2

Composer's second electro-acoustic work composed using primitive equipment in the audio-visual department of the University of Oregon.

 
Track 7 - Study no. 2 (Concrete)
Piano sounds.
 
Track 8 - Three Lyrics for Piano

Performed at the University of Oregon by Gabriel Chodos.

 
Track 9 - Study No. 3

Sources from piano sounds. May be identical to "Primary Experience.

 

Track 10 - After "Nude Descending A Staircase"

Composed as part of requirements for an M.A. thesis in musical composition at the School of Music at the University of Oregon. Performed by the Houston Symphony on April 20, 1967. Also performed at Columbia University in 1966, composer conducting.

 
Track 11 - Columbia etude no. 1

Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Tape spliced exercise in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

 
Track 12 - The Dying Christian to his Soul

Song cycle for tenor and piano based on poem by Alexander Pope, composed in Eugene OR.

 
Track 13 - Infantasy

Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Tape music techniques using infant voices and produced in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.