Jon Appleton Archive, Vol. 2: 1966-1969

Album Title: Jon Appleton Vol. 2 1966-1969
 
Track 1 - Georganna's fancy

Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

 
Track 2 - Spuyten Duyvil

Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

 
Track 3 – The American Songs for Tenor and Piano

Arrangement of voice and piano composition. Composed in Eugene, Oregon.  Earnest Murphy, tenor and Jon Appleton, piano.

 
Track 4 – Chef's d'oeuvre

First electronic music composition in the Griffith Electronic Music Studio. The most well-known of all the composer's works.

 
Track 5 – Nyckelharpen Variations

Bregman Electronic Music Studio. Source material from Norwegian "keyed fiddle" called the Nyckelharpa.

 
Track 6 – Second scene unobserved

Same electro-acoustic music as "Scene Unobserved" but for live performance with single wind, string, percussion, and piano.

 

Track 7 – The visitation

Adapted from "Scene Unobserved."

 

Track 8 – Boghosian's piece

a.k.a. "Hommage to Orpheus" originally composed to accompany sculpture by Varujan Boghosian.

 

Track 9 - C.C.C.P.: In Memoriam Anatoly Kuznetsov

Bregman Electronic Music Studio. Source material from old Russian recordings and BBC interviews.

 

Track 10 – Hommage to G.R.M.

Bregman Electronic Music Studio. The composer's only work using exclusively sounds from a Moog III synthesizer. GRM refers to the Groupe de Recherches Musicale in Paris, France.

 

Track 11 – Newark Airport Rock

Source material of interviews conducted at the Newark Airport with Moog synthesizer background.

 

Track 12 – Times Square times ten

Bregman Electronic Music Studio. Tape piece using source material collected in New York City.