Ramón Sender

In 1962, Sender co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center with Morton Subotnick, and he took part with Subotnick and Don Buchla in the development of the Buchla 100 modular synthesizer. His electronic and mixed-media works from this period include Desert Ambulance and Tropical Fish Opera.
After co-producing the 1966 Trips Festival in San Francisco, Sender left the city for the open land communes of western Sonoma County, where he lived and wrote for more than a decade. He returned to San Francisco in 1980 and turned increasingly to writing. His best-known book, A Death in Zamora (1989), investigates his mother's killing and has been treated by historians of the Spanish Civil War as a record of both the war and early Spanish feminism.