Sanford Ponder has been played on NTS in shows including Adam Oko, featured first on 9 June 2019. Songs played include Frontier and Alanna.

Sanford Ponder is an American musician, best known for his two albums of electronic music in the mid '80s during the initial years of the Private Music label. He was one of the first musicians working in the digital domain, and was a Fairlight Computer Music Instrument operator for artists such as Kurtis Blow, Psychedelic Furs, Nile Rodgers, Lou Rawls, then an independant Hollywood sound designer and producer.

When Sanford Ponder was signed to Private Music, he was playing clubs in New York and creating music for dance performances and poetry readings. He was a pionneer in digital synthesis, sampling and digital recording, while driving a taxi to make a living…

As Botanica he created music from and about fractals. He currently works as a healing practitioner in California.