Ramon Sender (musician)

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Ramón Sender (2011)

Ramón Sender Barayón (born October 29, 1934 in Madrid , Spain ) is an American composer , artist and writer . With Morton Subotnick and Pauline Oliveros he founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1962 . As an author, he was best known for his mother's biography, "A Death in Zamora".

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Sender is the son of the Spanish writer Ramón J. Sender , who joined the Republican troops when the civil war broke out . His mother, Amparo Barayón, was captured and shot by Franco troops in 1936 . Sender and his sister were taken to France by the Red Cross , and both ended up in Manhattan in 1939 , where they were housed with an American family. As a teenager he took piano lessons from George Copeland and studied music with Elliott Carter , Harold Shapero , Robert Erickson at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music , which he graduated with a Bachelor of Music , and Darius Milhaud at Mills College , where he received an MA .

With the San Francisco Tape Music Center, the three founders started a series of monthly concerts in a hall they shared with the radio station KPFA-FM . Terry Riley and Steve Reich produced recordings in an affiliated studio for electronic music . In 1966 the company was relocated to Mills College. In January 1966, Sender was co-producer of the Trips Festival in the context of the acid tests .

From April 1966 he devoted himself to meditation and yoga with like-minded people in the Morningstar Ranch , a hippie commune in Sonoma County , which he said resembled an ashram in the tradition of Aurobindo Ghose .

In 1973, Sender accepted a one-semester teaching assignment for electronic music at Sonoma State University . The following year he traveled to South America with Alicia Bay Laurel to research and write their joint book Being of the Sun. Writing now became his main occupation; His articles have appeared in The Co-Evolution Quarterly , The Whole Earth Review, and The Modern Utopian . After the publication of his book Zero Weather , he moved to San Francisco, where he wrote book reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle and founded a publishing company. Thanks to a scholarship received in 1983, he was able to create the biography of his mother A Death in Zamora , which was published in 1989 by the University of New Mexico Press. It was published in German under the title "A Death in Zamora".

Publications

Books

  • Being of the Sun (with Alicia Bay Laurel)
  • Zero Weather
  • A Death in Zamora (German: A Death in Zamora , translated by Peter Kultzen )
  • Catalog of Prints, Drawings, Original Art
  • A Planetary Sojourn. Stories, Articles, Essays and Four Recipes for Bliss

Albums

  • Worldfood (recorded 1965 at San Francisco Tape Music Center, released 2004)
  • Desert Ambulance (recorded 1962/1964, published 2006)

Web links

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  1. ↑ About Morton Subotnick . In: mortonsubotnick.com . Retrieved August 7, 2010.
  2. ↑ Entry Ramón Sender Barayón at Thriftbooks
  3. ↑ Entry Ramon Sender at Discogs
personal data
SURNAME Sender, Ramon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Transmitter Barayón, Ramón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer, artist, and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid , Spain