George Harrison: Electronic Sound

As a direct result of the Beatles' great curiosity about experimental music and other avant-garde forms of artistic expression, Apple Records founded its short-lived subsidiary Zapple in February 1969 as a forum for unhindered sound research or, as it was called at the time, "freakier sounds". George's "Electronic Sound" and "Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With the Lions" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, both released in May 1969, were Zapple's only releases before its closure. The cover of "Electronic Sound", painted by George, shows his Moog IIIp (which was later used by the Beatles on four tracks of their album Abbey Road) with the four modules from which the sound was synthesized.