Billy Tipton (1914-1989) was a saxophone player who had his own band and later his own music agency. He got married, adopted three boys. Tipton eked out a living in the USA during the depression and in the war and post-war years. He was good, but never got famous. He did something quite normal: he traveled and played with a band, managing both his life and being a professional musician. Billy Tipton only made the worldwide headlines through his death: the body of the musician and agency operator was the body of a normally developed 75-year-old woman.
'Suits me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton' by Diane Wood Middlebrook tells the true story of an extraordinary life. Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]