Timothy Laszlo Sandor
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Timothy Laszlo Sandor (born 1974) is an American visual and performance artist who sometimes records music
under the pseudonym Platinum Bitch. He is a founding member of New Familiar Music, an internet record label, and of the Philadelphia-based music collective
Leader Clears the Lunar.
, Brooklyn, New York, but dropped out of art school shortly thereafter. He has since studied psychology, education, addiction
and sociology. Sandor has lived in Portland, Oregon, as well as various cities in Florida. He is married to Elise May & currently resides in Philadelphia.
Identifying with social movements such as the free culture movement
and anarchism
, Sandor is philosophically opposed to copyright laws. He remains a staunch advocate of DIY production, as well as the Internet, and peer-to-peer
file-sharing networks as a means for the creative community to bypass the RIAA and corporate influence over music production and distribution.
Employing a creative commons
license, he has published most of his music in an open source
format, whereby a song is treated as a work-in-progress; revisions are allowed (and encouraged) by anyone who wishes to collaborate on the work, so long as these adaptations remain open content
. Leader Clears the Lunar aims to take this further by donating to, and adapting works from, the public domain
. Through the collaborative efforts of the collective's artists, songs are designed to be "written but never finished".
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
under the pseudonym Platinum Bitch. He is a founding member of New Familiar Music, an internet record label, and of the Philadelphia-based music collective
Collective
A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together on a specific project to achieve a common objective...
Leader Clears the Lunar.
Biography
Sandor was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1974, but grew up mostly in the Philadelphia area. He studied painting at Pratt InstitutePratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...
, Brooklyn, New York, but dropped out of art school shortly thereafter. He has since studied psychology, education, addiction
Substance dependence
The section about substance dependence in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders does not use the word addiction at all. It explains:...
and sociology. Sandor has lived in Portland, Oregon, as well as various cities in Florida. He is married to Elise May & currently resides in Philadelphia.
Identifying with social movements such as the free culture movement
Free Culture movement
The free culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works in the form of free content by using the Internet and other forms of media....
and anarchism
Anarchism
Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations...
, Sandor is philosophically opposed to copyright laws. He remains a staunch advocate of DIY production, as well as the Internet, and peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application...
file-sharing networks as a means for the creative community to bypass the RIAA and corporate influence over music production and distribution.
Employing a creative commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
license, he has published most of his music in an open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
format, whereby a song is treated as a work-in-progress; revisions are allowed (and encouraged) by anyone who wishes to collaborate on the work, so long as these adaptations remain open content
Open content
Open content or OpenContent is a neologism coined by David Wiley in 1998 which describes a creative work that others can copy or modify. The term evokes open source, which is a related concept in software....
. Leader Clears the Lunar aims to take this further by donating to, and adapting works from, the public domain
Public domain
Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
. Through the collaborative efforts of the collective's artists, songs are designed to be "written but never finished".
Discography
- The Black Plum EP (2001)
- Seven Gestures EP (2002)
- Avatars EP (2005)
- October EP (2006)
- November EP (2006)
- December EP (2006)
- January EP (2007)
- February EP (2007)
- March EP (2007)
- Love is King Forever EP (2009)
- Pox EP (2011)