Philip Sanderson and David Jackman -Terrain/Adrift

Side A

Terrain (Jackman and Sanderson)

 

Side B

 Adrift (Jackman)

  

Notes:

Three tracks called 'Terrain' were recorded by David Jackman and Philip Sanderson in the Snatch Tapes 'studio' in Paddington, London during the summer of 1980. Side A of the 10 inch features one of these tracks, the second 'Terrain' track appeared on the Jackman/Sanderson tape 0 North in 1981, but has not been re-issued. The third 'Terrain' track became 'Offshore' as featured on the Ritual cassette. The B-side track is from the David Jackman Snatch Tape Adrift.

 

Review:

From: the Wire Magazine by David Keenan:

In light of Throbbing Gristle finally delivering on punkís broken promise to liberate music from "musicians", the UKís underground tape scene became the suppository for some of the most innovative and challenging noises that followed in punkís wake. At the vanguard was David Jackman. Between 1979 and 1983 he recorded a slew of cassettes under his own name before retreating from view under the name of Organum. Recorded in 1980 "Terrain" is a collaboration with Philip Sanderson who ran the Snatch cassette label. Constructed from what sounds like the slowly bowed bass strings of an electric guitar and looped percussion given halos of echo, itís an understated drone piece that eventually builds to nothing. The flipside "Adrift" is much more striking. Oddly melodic is assembled from a repeating bass and an assortment of looped tapes set in a bizarre waltz time. Over a slowly seesawing backing track muzzy choral blasts rise and fall in a pattern that could be the duoís miniature take on Tangerine Dreamís Zeit. "Adrift was originally the tittle track of a solo Jackman cassette released by Snatch in a run of 20 copies in 1981.Though Die Stadt pressings donít exactly reach mass circulation figures either, the tracks reappearance here is as welcome as it is surprising.

 

Storm Bugs - Up the Middle Down the Sides

Track Listing

Note: both sides of the LP are collaged into one long track

 

Side A (Mannequins Positive)

1. Lets see what happens if we try doing this (0.26)

2. Water Bottle Wasp (0.22)

3. Little Bob Minor (3.36)

4. Pity the Small (2.10)

5. Protoslap (0.58)

6. Thin Line Flash of Traffic (0.59)

7. Full English Breakfast(0.53)

8. 111 (4.03)

9. Skid Pan Buoy (2.59)

10. Holiday 82 (0.29)

 

Side B (Mannequins Negative)

1. Blackheath Episode (4.54)

2. Later that Same Evening (1.38)

3. Live at Top Shop (0.29)

4. Make Customers Matter (1.44)

5. In the Naked Girl's Majesty (1.01)

6. Wasp Bottle (4.11)

7. Our Main Objective (4.41)

 

Tracks A1, 3, 6, 9, B1, 2, 4, 7 by Philip Sanderson. Tracks A4, 5, 7, 8, 10, B3 by Philip Sanderson & Steven Ball. Tracks A2, B6 by Steven Ball. Track B5 by Philip Sanderson & David Jackman.

 

Credits:

Format: LP, 300 copies

Release Date: 2004

Label: Fusetron

Catalogue Number: Fuse 036

Sleeve Design: Philip Sanderson & Steven Ball

 

Notes:

The sleeve features an anamorphic projection, to decipher use a small reflective tube (see rear of cover for diagram)

 

Side A (Mannequins Positive)

1. Lets see what happens if we try doing this (0.26)

Recorded Deptford 1979 (previously unreleased)

PS: Vocals, Guitar, Short Wave

SB: Guitar, Short Wave

 

2. Water Bottle Wasp (0.22)

Recorded Maidstone 1981 (previously unreleased)

SB: Bottle, Wasp, Water

 

3. Little Bob Minor (3.36)

Recorded New Cross 1979 (From the Dark Cuttings cassette)

PS: VCS3

 

4. Pity the Small (2.10)

Recorded Strood 1980 (previously unreleased)

PS: Loops

SB: Loops and Vocal

 

5. Protoslap (0.58)

Recorded Elephant & Castle 1981 (previously unreleased)

PS: Vibes, Dr Rhythm

SB: Drums, Dr Rhythm

 

6. Thin Line Flash of Traffic (0.59)

Recorded Paddington 1980 (From Snatch 2)

PS: Scratched Records, Vocals, Guitar, Short Wave

 

7. Full English Breakfast(0.53)

Recorded Deptford 1978 (previously unreleased)

PS: Guitar, Short Wave

SB: Guitar, Short Wave

 

8. 111 (4.03)

Recorded Paddington 1980 (previously unreleased)

PS: Ring Modulator Loops

 

9. Skid Pan Buoy (2.59)

Recorded Deptford 1979 (From Dark Cuttings)

PS: Scratched Records, Guitar, Vocals

 

10. Holiday 82 (0.29)

Recorded Elephant & Castle 1981 (previously unreleased)

PS: Dr Rhythm

SB: Vibes

 

Side B (Mannequins Negative)

1. Blackheath Episode (4.54)

Recorded New Cross 1980 (From A Safe Substitute)

PS: VCS3

 

2. Later that Same Evening (1.38)

Recorded Deptford 1978 ((From Dark Cuttings)

PS: Guitar, Short Wave

 

3. Live at Top Shop (0.29)

Recorded Deptford 1978 ((previously unreleased)

PS: Vocals, Oscillator

 

4. Make Customers Matter (1.44)

Recorded Deptford 1980 (From Gift)

PS: Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Scratched Records

 

5. In the Naked Girl's Majesty (1.01)

Recorded Paddington 1980 ((previously unreleased)

PS: Vocals, Loops

David Jackman: Loops

 

6. Wasp Bottle (4.11)

Recorded Maidstone 1981 (previously unreleased)

SB: Bottle, Wasp, Water

 

7. Our Main Objective (4.41)

Recorded New Cross 1980 (From the Table Matters EP)

PS: VCS3, Vocals, Guitar

 

Philip Sanderson - Seal Pool Sounds Limited Edition Box

A box set version of the Seal Pool CD limited to 25 copies. As well as the main Seal Pool CD, it includes an additional CD-R with two long drone tracks. All the boxes are hand made in Japan by John Podeszwa and feature various photographs and ephemera sourced by him.

Tracklisting 

CD as per regular Seal Pool Sounds

CD-R:

Fluorescent

Osaka by Night

 

Credits

Format: CD 25 of 500 copies, CD-R/Box, 25 copies

Release Date: 2005

Label: Seal Pool

Catalogue Number: None

Sleeve Design: John Podeszwa

Storm Bugs - A Safe Substitute (CD)

1. Mesh of Wire/Objective/Car Situations/Mesh of Wire (Reprise)

2. Hodge

3. Solely From

4. Blackheath Episode

Bonus Tracks

5. He Rose up Again

6. 333

7. Table Matters Soundtrack

 

Philip Sanderson: VCS3 (1-5,7), vocals (1), tape loops (1,6,7), short wave radio (2), guitar (7)

Steven Ball: vocals (1), percussion (1,6), tape loops (6) 

Sarah Pomeroy: guitar/VCS3 (1)

All tracks by Sanderson except "Car Situations" and "333" by Sanderson & Ball 

 

Credits:

Format: CD, 300 copies

Release Date: 2020

Label: Klanggalerie

Catalogue Number: gg337

Sleeve Design: Philip Sanderson and Steven Ball. The sleeve images are from the Storm Bugs Super 8 film Table Matters (1980) by Steven Ball

 

Notes:

Originally released on cassette by Snatch Tapes in 1980, this 40th anniversary re-issue on CD by Klanggalerie contains a gently remastered version of the original tape plus three bonus tracks, two of which ("333" and "Table Matters Soundtrack") have not previously been released.

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Philip Sanderson - Rumble of The Ruins

Side A

1 Rumble of The Ruins 02:23

2 Window Sill 02:18

3 The Elephant's Eye 03:00

4 Raven Row (You Know How it Goes) 03:06

5  Funicular Freedom 04:11

Side B

6 Au Coin Du Jardin 4.34

7 Funny Money 03:35

8 If You Take a Table 02:31

9 The Golden Fleet 04:12

10 Broken Morning 06:58

 

All tracks by Philip Sanderson

 

Credits:

Format: Cassette, 25 numbered copies

Release Date: 2020

Label: Snatch Tapes

Catalogue Number: tch 219

Design: Layout/ paintings by Philip Sanderson

Reviews:

Review by Ed Pinsent from the Sound Projector 27/07/2020

Last heard from Philip Sanderson with his very good LP On One Of These Bends, lovingly presented as a vinyl edition in an expensive jacket by Séance Centre of Canada. Today’s Sanderson item is Rumble Of The Ruins (SNATCH TAPES TCH 2020), a Bandcamp-only thing with a cover featuring a painting by the man himself – he seems to be making a venture in exploring the history of 20th-century European fine art on his own terms, turning in a mysterious tableau that contains faint traces of Paul Klee, Léger, and de Chirico.

 

Musically, Sanderson is getting back to what he does so well – songs and electronica, a form of synthop with drum machines and treated vocals, produced in a very eccentric DIY post-punk manner. This is quite different to the lush, soundtrack-y productions we heard on On One Of These Bends, and there’s a lot to be said for the immediacy of these concise and assured ditties, most of them clocking in at traditional pop-song length of three minutes. Sanderson may make it seem easy, almost throwaway at times, but I suspect there is a lot of craft underlying these songs, both in terms of composition, lyrical content, and sheer effort spent programming and overdubbing (or however he created it). Each song sounds both jaunty and slightly unsettling in equal measure; I’m not sure what is causing this impression, but while the rhythms are upbeat and foot-tappingly catchy, the melodies keep veering towards a darkened minor key, and the song delivery has a strange urgency to it.

 

That’s not to mention the lyrics, which today strike me as fairly bonkers (in a good way) – like an update on the king of balmy, red wine-soaked laissez-faire, Kevin Ayers. If I explored this pathway any further, we might end up making a case for situating Philip Sanderson in a line with other 1970s English songwriting eccentrics, such as Robert Wyatt, Eno, Pete Sinfield and Peter Hammill. I mention this as I think it’s a dimension of Sanderson’s considerable skillset which isn’t spotlighted too often, as he’s more often pegged as a cassette band / post-punk / noise artist. Personally, I also prefer his song-based work to the all-instrumental music of records like Seal Pool Sounds (2005). From 15th January 2020.

 

www.thesoundprojector.com/2020/07/27/fragments-shored-against-my-ruins/

 

Review by Neil Kulkarni The Wire September 2020

How odd l was listening to Hood's Cold House the other day and it's amazing how close Rumble Of The Ruins by Storm Bugs' Philip Sanderson shears to that period of post-rock where underground rock fans admitted they loved both Justin Timberlake and Disco Inferno. There's a similar fondness for startlingly poppy textures, a similar pleasure in the detournement of those sounds for determinedly art rock ends.

 

Sanderson's voice- check out the Canterbury via Medway psychness of "Window Sill" - now has a wonderfully unmannered, conversational feel, and the same talents in collage and subtle derailment of sources that he's made so evident in his Storm Bugs work are still present. It's the decision making within that process that's key, and Sanderson knows what to treat and what to leave untouched. So the poppiest choruses get deliberately amplified until they get glassy eyed and unsettling, the strange sonic detritus that populates these songs always executed and jettisoned before anything can detract from the melodic strength. "The Elephants Eye" and “Raven Row (You Know How It Goes)" deliver a flavour of what Kevin Ayers might cook up if he were alive and forced to work with the Residents.

 

David Jackman - Ritual

 

Side A

Ritual (Jackman)

 

Side B

Offshore (Jackman & Sanderson)

 

Credits:

Format: Cassette, 30 copies (see below).

Release Date: 1980

Label: Snatch Tapes

Catalogue Number TCH211:

Sleeve Design: both cover designs by David Jackman

 

Notes:

There were two versions of this tape; the first limited to 5 copies had a photocopied cover with a stylised bird beak standing erect in a field (the lower image), whilst the second copy was limited to 25 copies and features the cover at the top of the page with the rats. 'Offshore' by David Jackman & Philip Sanderson was included on the CD reissue of Up From Zero in 2003

 

Various Artists: Close To The Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984

DISC ONE:

1. FIVE TIMES OF DUST – Computer Bank

2. THE KLINGONS – R.A.M.

3. CHRIS AND COSEY – Re-Education Through Labour

4. MALCOLM BROWN – Sedation Strokes

5. STORM BUGS – Little Bob Minor

6. THOMAS LEER – Tight As A Drum

7. BLANCMANGE – Holiday Camp

8. INNER CITY STATIC – Fractured Smile

9. WE BE ECHO – Sexuality

10.BOURBONESE QUALK – God With Us

11.NAGAMATZU Faith

12.O YUKI CONJUGATE – Disco Song

13.BRITISH ELECTRIC FOUNDATION – Optimum Chant

14.KEVIN HARRISON – All Night Long

15.VOICE OF AUTHORITY – Stopping And Starting

 

DISC TWO:

1. COLIN POTTER – I Am Your Shadow

2. BRITISH STANDARD UNIT – D’Ya Think I’m Sexy?

3. FIVE TIMES OF DUST – The Single Off The Album

4. SPÖÖN FAZER – Back To The Beginning

5. GERRY AND THE HOLOGRAMS – Gerry And The Holograms

6. THE PASSAGE – Drugface

7. JOHN FOXX – A New Kind Of Man

8. 100% MANMADE FIBRE – Green For Go

9. THOSE LITTLE ALIENS – Sentimental

10.FINAL PROGRAM – Protect And Survive

11.THE HUMAN LEAGUE – Being Boiled

12.INSTANT AUTOMATONS – New Muzak

13.CULTURAL AMNESIA – Materialistic Man

14.WORLDBACKWARDS – (Leaving Me) Now

15.ALAN BURNHAM – Music To Save The World By

16.ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK – Almost

17.EYELESS IN GAZA – Kodak Ghosts Run Amok

18.SCHLEIMER K – Broken Vein

19.NATIVE EUROPE – The Distance From Köln

 

DISC THREE:

1. ZORCH – Adrenalin (Return of the Elohim Pt 1)

2. SEA OF WIRES – Robot Dance

3. RON BERRY – Sea Of Tranquility

4. MFH – Mistral

5. ADRIAN SMITH – Joe Goes To New York

6. MARK SHREEVE – Embryo (Extract)

7. EG OBLIQUE GRAPH – Triptych

8. CARL MATTHEWS – Encounter

9. PAUL NAGLE – Ynys Scaith

10.O YUKI CONJUGATE – Sedation

11.KONSTRUKTIVIST – Western Vein

12.ATTRITION – Dead Of Night (Excerpt)

 

DISC FOUR:

1. THROBBING GRISTLE – What A Day

2. A TENT – No Way Of Knowing

3. PORTION CONTROL – Go For The Throat

4. DC3 – Eco Beat

5. RENALDO AND THE LOAF – Dying Inside

6. BLAH BLAH BLAH – In The Army

7. LEGENDARY PINK DOTS – God Speed

8. MUSLIMGAUZE – Muslin Gauze Muslim Prayer

9. SUISSE – Live At Longborne

10.ALIEN BRAINS – Menial Disorders, Extract B2

11.STORM BUGS – Himeal (And She Blew)

12.THIRD DOOR FROM THE LEFT – In The Room

13.AL ROBERTSON – Dignity Of Labour

14.bcGilbert, gLewis, russell Mills – Mzui (Extract)

 

Credits:

Format: 4 X CD plus booklet . Also issued as double LP.

Release Date: 2016

Label: Cherry Red 

Catalogue Number: CRCDBOX24

 

Notes:

A 4CD, 60-track set exploring the origins of electronica in the UK with a 48pp booklet with artists' sleeve notes and an essay by Dave Henderson. From the Cherry Red Press Release: "Featuring tracks from key figures from the cassette label underground alongside early releases by future stars of the movement." Alonside the likes of the Human League you get two Storm Bugs tracks as well as Alien Brains, Cultural Amnesia, and Sea of Wires all of whom appeared on early Snatch Tapes compilations. An edited double LP version was also released containing one Storm Bugs track.

 

MESSTHETICS GREATEST HISS: the DIY cassette-scene vol.1

1. Jelly Babies - 'Soylent Green'

2. 391 - 'Jet Plane'

3. Instant Automatons - 'Gillian is Normal'

4. Event Group - 'Concussion Edit'

5. Missing Persons - 'Sign of The Times'

6. Danny & The Dressmakers - 'Eggs on Legs'

7. Gravity Craze - 'Song For M'

8. Farming Jim - 'Cats in The Kitchen'

9. Chromosomes - 'Hi Fi Know How'

10. Mike Jones - 'Reckless Policies'

11. Living Dead No.5 - 'Never Give In'

12. Storm Bugs - 'Car Situations (Nasal Passage)'

13. Colin Potter - 'Power'

14. Digital Dinosaurs - 'Baby Snakes'

15. Twizlers - 'We are The Twizlers'

16. Casual Labourers - 'A Lapse is Due'

17. Midnight Circus - 'Suburbia Nervosa'

18. Aconite - 'The Truth about Cable'

19. Milkshake Melon - 'Walk Oates Walk!'

20. Cultural Amnesia - 'Repetition for This World'

21. The Get - 'The Leaders'

22. Stripey Zebras - 'Walking Home'

23. Funhouse - 'Teenage Bedrooms'

24. Danny & The Dressmakers - 'Kif Kif's Magic Hat'

25. Chimp Eats Bananas - 'Shopping List'

 

Bonus MP3's

Chromosomes - 'Rot all Rulers'

Dean Johnson - 'Another Letter'

Digital Dinosaurs - 'Elephant Germs'

Farming Jim - 'New Years Eve'

Jelly Babies - 'Candy Bricks'

 

Credits:

Format: CD. 500 copies

Release Date: 2008

Label: Hyped to Death

Catalogue Number: Messthetics 10

 

Notes:

Includes a 24-page booklet with histories, photos, artifacts and an essay from Mick Sinclair, who wrote the original Cassette Pets column for Sounds.

 

The Storm Bugs track is 'Car Situations (Nasal Passage)' from the A Safe Substitute Cassette.

 

Storm Bugs - Metamorphose (Tin/Car Situations)

Side A 

Tin 

 

Side B

Car Situations

Both tracks by Philip Sanderson and Steven Ball. Philip Sanderson: loops, vocals, treatments. Steven Ball: guitar, bass, lead vocals.

 

Credits:

Format,: 7 inch single, 1,470 copies

Release Date: 1981

Label: L'invitation au Suicide 

Catalogue Number: L'invitation 0100

Sleeve and label Design: Yann Farcy

 

Notes:

Whereas the first Storm Bugs single was recorded by Sanderson on a two-track Revox tape machine the second Storm Bugs single was a collaborative affair between Sanderson and Ball using a multitrack recorder. Sanderson first created a drum loop from a bongo using various tape collage techniques. Over this he developed a rough guitar part and the vocal line.  Ball honed the guitar part into a more formal chord sequence and wrote a bass part. The two then recorded and mixed the song on an 8-track multitrack tape machine in an afternoon. The music for side B was built up from layers of tape loops made by Sanderson on top of which the vocal line was added by Ball. The lyrics to Car Situations had been written by Sanderson and Ball in Paddington using cut-up phrases from sources such as John Cage's book Silence. The release was the first on the French L'invitation au Suicide label. The single came in a 10-inch sleeve entitled Metamorphose. The design differed considerably from that which the band had agreed with the label and was disowned by them.

Various - Telephone Music

 

Side A

1 Maps (Philip Sanderson)

2 Thief (Philip Sanderson/Michael Denton)

3 Merry Christmas Adolf (Michael Denton)

4 Drinks and Aeroplanes (Philip Sanderson)

 

Side B 

1 Ups and Downs (Philip Sanderson/Michael Denton)

2 Apostrophe S (Philip Sanderson/Steven Ball/David Jackman)

3 Spy Garden (Philip Sanderson)

4 Mr. Sound (Michael Denton)

 

Credits

Format: Cassette, 5 copies.

Release Date: 1986

Label: Telephone Music

Catalogue Number: tel 001

Sleeve Design: Michael Denton & Philip Sanderson. Photo by Michael Denton

Compiled and produced by: Philip Sanderson

 

Notes: 

The tape compiled collaborative and solo tracks by PhilipSanderson & Michael Denton from bertween 1981 and 1986, plus the track 'Apostrophe S' by Philip Sanderson & Steven Ball (with flute by David Jackman). The tape came in two sleeves, a white 7-inch single sleeve (sealed using brown parcel tape) with a grey photocopied label on the front and back and a design with the camouflage plyers. 'Maps', 'Drinks and Aeroplanes', and 'Spy Garden' (retitled as 'Tale Chase') were re-issued in 2018 on the LP On One of These Bends.

Storm Bugs - Table Matters

Side 1

Cash Wash

Eat Good Beans

Make Customers Matter

 

Side 2

Window Shopping 

Our Main Objective

 

All tracks by Philip Sanderson.

 

Credits:

Format: 7-inch EP. 500 copies.

Release Date: 1980

Label: Loop records

Catalogue Number: 

Sleeve Design & Photography: Steven Ball

 

Notes:

The Storm Bugs 7-inch EP on black vinyl in a printed cover with white labels featuring a small sticker. The cut up sleeve shows photographs taken in and around Charring Cross Rd circa 1979. The image of the mannequins in the top left and right corner was used for the labels of Up the Middle Down the Sides. The image at the top of the page is of the printed sleeve but there were two other alternate photocopied sleeve designs. The records were pressed a couple of months before the printed sleeves were ready thus the first 50 copies (or so) came with a folded screen printed insert. One or two copies were also sold with one-off collages by Sanderson. The remaining 450 copies have the printed sleeve.

Snatch 3

 

Side 1

Steven Ball - 60/60

Mental - Sound 2 

Ice Yacht - 0 North

Nigel Jacklin - Song

Philip Sanderson - Under Press of Sail

David Jackman - World

 

Side 2

Claire Thomas - Ashes & Diamonds

Steven Ball - Dressing for the Party

David Jackman - Blues

Alien Brains & Instruments

Orior - Call

Michael Denton - Part 3

 

Credits:

Format: Cassette, 100 copies (approx)

Release Date: 1981

Label: Snatch Tapes

Catalogue Number: TCH 300

Sleeve Design: Philip Sanderson & David Jackman. Printed sleeve and white inlay card, screen printed turquoise and pink cassette labels,

 

Notes:

The third and last Snatch Tapes complation. The tracks 'O North' and 'Ashes and Diamonds', here credited to Ice Yacht and Claire Thomas respectively, were later to appear on the Sanderson/Jackman O North tape (AR4). 'Ashes & Diamonds' was mixed by Sanderson using a flute loop made with David Jackman, snippets of vocals by Nancy Slessinger (who sang on 'Bright Waves') all fed through a Revox tape delay. '0 North' is a mix of the drum loop from the Storm Bugs single 'Tin' with Esraj by David Jackman (a slowed down version of the 'Blues' track also found on the tape. Orior were an ambient electronic duo comprising 'Clip' and Phil Hollins who released one single on the Crystal Groove label, and recorded an LP which was not released until 2016 as Strange Beauty. Nigel Jacklin released a number of tapes under the Alien Brains title many of whcih were subsequently re-issued by Vinly on Demand as as a boxset. To accompany Snatch 3 there was a screenprinted A0 poster by Philip Sandersom & Michael Denton. The Orior, David Jackman ('Blues'), and Nigel Jacklin tracks were re-issued on the Snatch Paste LP in 2006. Also included on the LP was an alternative version of the 'Ashes & Diamonds' track called 'Diamonds & Ashes'.

 

Storm Bugs - Slice of Live

Intro/Portapak/Pity the Small/Dull Sound of Breath/Window Shopping

The first 15 minutes of the Storm Bugs performance recorded live at Limehouse Town Hall on Saturday 7th July 2012.

 

Philip Sanderson/Steven Ball: loops, samples, electronics, vocals

 

Credits:

Format: Digital/Bandcamp

Release Date: 2013

Label: Snatch Tapes

Catalogue Number: none

Sleeve Design: Philip Sanderson & Steven Ball

 

Philip Sanderson - Reprint

Track Listing:

Bright waves

Reprint 1

Nein Nein Nein

Reprint 2

Under Press of Sail

 

All tracks by Philip Sanderson, except 'Nein NeinNein' by Philip Sanderson & Steven Ball. 'Bright Waves' by Philip Sanderson & Nancy Slessinger.

 

Credits

Format: CD, 500 copies

Release Date: 2003

Label: Anomalous

Catalogue Number: NOM 23

Sleeve Design: Philip Sanderson

 

Notes:

Re-issue of the 1980 cassette originally credited to Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey.

Reviews:

From: the Wire Magazine by Jim Haynes:

"...what may have been consigned to the dustbin of 1980's cassette culture turns out to be a marvellous find, as good as any of the recently recovered cassettes of recordings of Cabaret Voltaire or Throbbing Gristle."

 

From: WFMU a review by Program Director Brian Turner:

"Reprint was originally a cassette under Claire & Susan's moniker, and regardless of what name is on it today it stands as a great marker on the home-brewed experimental/electronic timeline. Glad to see Anomalous brought this back to the surface."

 

CV

CV  Philip Sanderson

This list combines screenings, gallery installation and musical releases.

  

Solo Exhibitions

2015: Chronocuts (video series), exhibited as part of Trash’d NewWave Festival at Memorial Gallery, Hastings, UK.

2002: On Some Faraway Beach, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, UK. 

2002: Boating for Beginners, Pump House/Battersea Park, London, UK.

1997: Overheard Overhead, The Vestry, London, UK.

1996: Somewhere over England, Conductors’ Hallway, London, UK.

1996: If we can sparkle he may land tonight, Tannery, London, UK. 

 

Group Screenings/Exhibitions

All works by Philip Sanderson unless otherwise stated. 

 

2023:

Typing Pool (video) (2018) screened as part of screened as part of One Minute Volume 11. aContemporary Art Ruhr, Germany.

Snatch Tapes Symphony (Limited Edition Lathe Vinyl LP) (2023) Snatch Tapes, UK.

Dilly Dreamers (Limited Edition Lathe Vinyl LP) (2023) Astres D'Or, Netherlands.

2022:

Green on The Horizon (made with Steven Ball) (video) (1988) screened as part of The Unreliable Narrator, BFI/NFT, UK.  

Something in The Air (video) (2020) screened as part of One Minute Volume 10 

at 303 Projects, UK.

Up Close (video) (2022) screened at: Exploding cinemas Hastings, UK.

Passionate Particles (CD) (2022) Klanggalerie, Germany.

Noisy Nylon – Ice Yacht (MC) (2022) Snatch Tapes, UK.

Lost with all Hands (DL)) (2022) Snatch Tapes, UK.

 

2021:

24 Trains a Second (video) (2021) Fields of View, UK.

One Minute Volumes 1 - 10 archived at The British Film Institute

Something in The Air (video) (2020) screened as part of One Minute Volume 10 at Contemporary Art Ruhr, Germany.

Not Even my Closet Friends (MC) (2021) Snatch Tapes, UK.

 Colour Buffer - Ice Yacht (MC) (2021) Snatch Tapes, UK

 

2020:

Tracking (video) (2017) screened at Greenwich SOUND/IMAGE Festival, University of Greenwich, UK.

Something in The Air (video) (2020) screened as part of One Minute Volume 10 on VisualContainerTV, UK, and at Contemporary Art Ruhr, Germany.

The gift of sound and vision: Visual music as a form of glossolalic speech. In Sound and Image (pp. 120-131). Focal Press, UK.

Pillbox – Ice Yacht (MC) (2020) Snatch Tapes, UK.

Rumble of The Ruins (MC) (2020) Snatch Tapes, UK.

Storm Bugs (Philip Sanderson & Steven Ball) - A Safe Substitute (CD) (2020) Klanggalerie, Germany.

 

2019: 

Green on the Horizon (video) (1988) (with Steven Ball), Hangway Turning (video) (1990), Film of the Same Name (video) (2016) (with Steven Ball) all screened at 51Zero festival, UK.

Chronocuts (video) (2015) screened at Last Thursday Film Club, UK.

Storm Bugs - ‘Full Moon in My Pocket’ included on compilation Your Song, My Foot! Vol. 3: The 1979 Edition (MC) (2019), WFMU, USA.

Storm Bugs - ‘Take it to The Top’ included on compilation ContraPop Festival 2018: The Third And Tidal Report (CD) Extra Normal, UK.

 

2018: 

Pebble Dot Dash (video) (2018) hosted on the Wire Music Magazine YouTube channel, and presented as part of MPE & MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium 'Contexts of Film Practice', at University of Lincoln, UK. 

Tracking (video) (2017) screened at Darkroom Film Festival, UK. 

Twenty-five minute programme of videos by Sanderson screened at Mashcinema at Nozstock Festival, UK. 

Ten videos by Lumière & Son (Thomas Wiesner and Philip Sanderson) screened at London Art Fair, UK.

Typing Pool (video) (2018), and Pebble Dot Dash (video) (2018) screened at London Animation Club, UK.

Film of The Same Name (video) (2016) animation segments screened as part of Am1nation 2018 at London Animation Club, UK.

On One of These Bends (vinyl LP) (2018), Séance Centre, Canada.

 

2017: 

Tracking (video) (2017) screened at: Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Colombia, and at The Sound / Image colloquium University of Greenwich, UK. Nutcracking (video) (2010) by Lumière & Son screened as part of VisualcontainerTV, UK. 

“Resisting immersion in Visual Music:  The case for heightened listening and looking, and against pseudo-synaesthesia” paper presented at Sound / Image colloquium, University of Greenwich, UK. 

 Storm Bugs - Certified Original and Vintage Fakes (CD-R) (2017) Snatch Tapes, UK.

 

2016: 

Moth Flight (video) (2016) 'recommended' in the awards at the 75 Second Film Awards, Amy Johnson Festival Hull, UK. 

Self-Oscillation (video) (2016) selected for One Minute Programme Volume 9 screened at over 40 venues, UK and international. 

Green on The Horizon (video) (1988) (Philip Sanderson & Steven Ball) selected for BFI London Filmmakers Co-operative online collection. 

Presented paper and supporting videos as part of ‘C21 Music Practices: Sound & Image’ at London South Bank University, UK.

Lumiere et Son – presented paper and supporting videos as part of ‘The City as Modernist Ephemera’ at London South Bank University, UK.

Storm bugs – ‘Hiemal’ and ‘Little Bob Minor’ included on compilation (CD/LP) Close To The Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984 (2016) Cherry Red, UK.

 

2015: 

Kisser (video) (2007) screened as part of Altered States, Electro Studios West St Leonards, UK.

Battle of the Pixels (video) (2015) screened as part of One Minute Hull Artists' Moving Image Festival, UK. 

Fleshtones (video) (2006) screened as part of Sound and Image Colloquium, University of Greenwich, UK. 

Chronocuts (video) (2015) screened/installation as part of Trash'd New Wave Festival exhibition, Memorial Gallery, UK. 

Ice Yacht - Pole of Cold (MC) (2015) Fragment Factory, Germany. 

2014: 

Aye Aye (video) (2010) by Lumiere et Son (Thomas Wiesner and Philip Sanderson) selected for One Minute Volume 7, screened at over 30 venues, UK and international. 

Back Projection (DL) (2014) Snatch Tapes, UK.

 

2013: 

Artist talk and screening of Fleshtones (2006), Kisser (2007), and Jiggery Pokery (2005), at London Animation Club, UK.

Insoluble (video (2012) selected for 100 x 100 touring exhibition, screened at over 40 venues, UK and international. 

Storm bugs – ‘Cash Wash’ included on compilation An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music #7 (Compilation) (CD) (2013) Sub Rosa, Belgium.

 

2012: 

Hollow Gravity (vinyl LP) (2012) Puer Gravy, USA. 

 

2011: 

Nutcracking (video) (2010) by Lumiere et Son selected for One Minute Volume 5, screened at: 24 venues, UK and international.

Storm Bugs  - A Safe Substitute (vinyl LP) (2011/1980) Harbinger Sound, UK

 

2010: 

Product Recall  (video) (2009) selected for Iota Centre YouTube Channel.

Time Travel (video) (2010) by Lumière & Son selected for One Minute Volume 4, screened at over 10 venues, UK and international.

 

2009: 

No Particular Place to Go (installation) (2009) solo exhibition at Memorial Gallery Hastings, UK. 

Quadrangle (video) (2005) screened at Visual Music Marathon, USA. 

Fleshtones (video) (2006) screened at Iota Salon, USA.  

Kisser (video) (2007) screened at The BAck door, Australia. 

 

2008: 

Landfill (video) (2008) screened at London International Animation Festival, UK.  

Kisser (video) (2007) selected for One Minute Volume 2 screened at 9 venues, UK and International.

Storm Bug - 'Car Situations (Nasal Passage)’ included on compilation Messthetics Greatest Hiss (CD) (2008) Hyped to Death, USA. 

 

2007: 

Storm Bugs - Neither Here Nor There (2007) video performance The Foundry, UK.  

Engine Trouble (video) (2005) screened at Camera Obscura, Australia. 

Jiggery Pokery (video) (2005) selected for One Minute Volume 1 screened at over ten venues, UK and international. 

Quadrangle (video) (2005) screened at Visual Music Marathon, USA. 

Head of Steam (video) (2006) screened at Magmart Tour,Italy.

Engine Trouble (video) (2005), Fleshtones (video) (2006) Jiggery Pokery (video) (2005) all screened at Cog Collective, UK. 

Storm Bugs - Supplementary Benefit (vinyl LP) (2007/1980) Vinyl on Demand, Germany. 

 

2006: 

Quadrangle (video) (2005) screened at Lumen Leeds, UK. 

Engine Trouble (video) (2005) screened at Video Under Volcano, Italy.

Snatch Paste - Compilation (vinyl LP) (2006 Vinyl on Demand, Germany. 

 

2005: 

Row Row (video) (2005) screened at Videolisboa, Portugal. 

A Rooco Din (video) (2004) screened at 291 Gallery, UK, Exploding Cinema, UK, Videolisboa, Portugal, and at Berlin Videonale, Germany. 

Quadrangle (video) (2005) screened at Prog ME, Brazil, and at Island Art Film & Video Festival, UK. 

Seal Pool Sounds (CD) (2005) Seal Pool, USA.

 

2004: 

Notice Board (installation) (2004) as part of group exhibition Hat on Wall, UK.

A Rooco Din (video) (2004) screened at Lux Exposure, UK.

Storm Bugs - Up the Middle Down The Sides, (vinyl LP) (2004/1980) Fusetron, USA. 

 

2003: 

Storm Bugs  -'For Internal Use Only' included on compilation (CD) (2008) Adverse Effects, UK.

 

2002: 

On Some Faraway Beach (installation) (2002) solo exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, UK.

Boating for Beginners  (installation) (2002) solo exhibition on boating lake/Pump House Gallery, UK. 

Reprint (CD) (2002/1980) Anomalous Records, USA. 

'Terrain' (Philip Sanderson/David Jackman) (vinyl EP) (2002/1980) Die Stadt, Germany.

'Offshore' (Philip Sanderson/David Jackman) (CD) (2002/1981) Robot Records, USA.

 

2001: 

Moderate with Fog Patches (installation) (2001) as part of group exhibition Wordplay, Q Arts, UK. 

Storm Bugs - Let's go Outside And Get it Over (CD) (2001) Snatch Tapes, UK.

 

2000: 

The Improbability Calculator (installation) (2000) as part of group exhibition Spectrum, Turtle Arts, UK.

 

1999: 

Phantom Power (installation) (2000) as part of group exhibition Letting the Days go by, MOTA, UK. 

 

1998: 

Home Video (installation) (1998) as part of group exhibition Baffle, Camerawork, UK.

 

1997: 

Overheard Overhead (installation) (1997) solo exhibition at The Vestry, UK. 

Hot Seat (installation) (1996) and Phantom Power (installation) (1997) as part of group exhibition Glow, Walsall art Gallery, UK. 

'If O became E', (installation)(1997) as part of group show Conductors' Hallway, UK.

 

1995: 

Hot Seat (installation) (1996) as part of South London Gallery Open, UK. Winner of Artist’s Prize.

 

1996:

Somewhere over England (installation) (1996) solo exhibition at the Conductors' Hallway, UK.

 

1992:

Shadowman (video) (1991) screened at New Media Festival Osnabruck, Germany, and at London Film Festival, London, UK.

 

1990: 

Green on the Horizon (video) (1988) (with Steven Ball), Hangway Turning (video) (1990) screened at over thirty venues including the Tate, ICA, Osnabruck, and the Piccadilly Film Festival. 

 

Education

PhD, University of Westminster, 2016  

PCHE, London South Bank University, 2012

MA Fine Art, Kingston University, 2002