"Ramón Sender Barayón figures in the Bay Area

counterculture as electronic music pioneer, co-

producer of theTrips Festival, chief remembrancer

of the Morning Star and Wheeler Ranch communes.

Born in Spain in 1934, he provides a link between

the radical communal traditions of the Old and the

New. In exile from fascist Spain with his novelist

father and sister. . . he fetched up in New York before

continuing his music studies at The San Francisco
Conservatory and Mills College."
-- Iain Boal -- "West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California." (PM Press, 2011)