Editing Jon Appleton (section)

===1970s===
At [[Dartmouth College]] Appleton's work in electronic music was generously encouraged by the administration of President [[John G. Kemeny]] and by a generous donation from Gerald Bregman '54. The Bregman Electronic Music studio was one of the pioneering studios at American universities and became a center for many visiting composers. Two of these, [[Lars-Gunnar Bodin]] (1935, [[Stockholm, Sweden]] – 2021) and [[Jean-Claude Risset]] (born 1938, LePuy, [[France]]) became important colleagues throughout Appleton's life. In 1970 Appleton also was influenced by the work of  the "father" of computer music, [[Max Mathews|Max V. Mathews]] and by French composers [[François Bayle]], Beatriz Ferreyra and Michel Redolfi.

It was at this time that he initiated the first competition for electronic music that was held for three years at Dartmouth College.

In 1969 Appleton's first recordings were published ([[Appleton Syntonic Menagerie|Syntonic Menagerie]] and Human Music – the latter in collaboration with jazz musician [[Don Cherry (jazz)|Don Cherry]] – on the [[Flying Dutchman Records|Flying Dutchman]] label,{{Sfn|''Discogs''}} produced by [[Bob Thiele]].

In 1973 Appleton began his collaboration with engineers Sydney Alonso and Cameron Jones, which led to the creation of the [[New England Digital|Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer]] and ultimately the [[Synclavier]].{{Sfn|"Synclavier Early History" ||p=}} However, it was not until the 1980s that Appleton composed his best works for this [[Digital data|digital]] [[synthesizer]] and on which he gave concerts of his own music for the following decade.

His love of [[Sweden]] led Appleton to leave [[Dartmouth College]] in 1976–1977 and become the director of Elektronmusikstudion, Sweden's national center for electronic music. His difficulty with the Swedish bureaucracy led to his resignation and he returned to [[Norwich, Vermont]], as a partner, for one year, in the newly formed firm [[New England Digital|New England Digital Corporation]] that had begun to manufacture the [[Synclavier]]. The following year he returned to the faculty of Dartmouth College.

It was also during this time in his life that Appleton developed a serious interest in the music of [[Polynesia]] and [[Micronesia]]. He led a group of Dartmouth students to the Kingdom of [[Tonga]] and later received a grant from the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] to train radio personnel on the Micronesian islands of [[Chuuk State|Chuuk]] and [[Pohnpei]] to record and broadcast their own music.