Timothy Laszlo Sandor

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Platinum Bitch

Background information
Origin	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Genre(s)	Experimental, Folk, Punk
Years active	1994–present
Label(s)	The Hospice Bouquet
Website	Official site

Timothy Laszlo Sandor (b. 1974) is an American visual and performance artist who sometimes records music under the pseudonym Platinum Bitch. He is a founding member of the Philadelphia-based music collective Leader Clears the Lunar.

1 Biography
2 Discography
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Timothy Sandor was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1974, but grew up mostly in the Philadelphia area. He studied painting at Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New York, but dropped out of art school shortly thereafter. He has since studied psychology, education, addiction and sociology. In addition to Brooklyn, Sandor has lived in Portland, Oregon, as well as in various cities in Florida. He married Elise Miller on May 1, 2007. He currently resides with his wife in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Identifying with social movements such as free culture and anarchism, Sandor is philosophically opposed to copyright laws, and is 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, subject to revision by anyone who wishes to collaborate on it, so long as the work itself remains copyright-free. 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".