Philip Sanderson - Passionate Particles

Tracklist:

1 Lay-by Lullaby

2 Omeletto

3 Feeding Time 

4 Body Snatcher

5 Crystal Set 

6 Down A Denny Lane 

7 Kite 

8 Racing The Arctic Shadow 

9 Summer With The Snow Bees 

10 Pity The Small 

11 View From A Hill 

12 Rumble Of The Ruins 

13 Slow Water 

14 Morphover & Curl 

15 Cash Back

16 Swing 

17 Colour Buffer

 

All tracks by Philip Sanderson

 

Credits:

Format: CD 300 copies

Release Date: 2022

Label: Klanggalerie

Catalogue Number: gg378

Sleeve Design: Philip Sanderson 

 

Notes:

Passionate Particles is an hour-long compilation of tracks drawn from LP, CD, MC, and DL releases made between 2000 and 2021.

 

Reviews:

 

PHILIP SANDERSON - PASSIONATE PARTICLES (CD by Klanggalerie)

 

I like Austria's Klanggalerie label because they are not strictly a re-issue label, even when a considerable part of their catalogue is about giving old releases a new life. They also like their old artists to release new music, which is great. Please don't stick to your old guns, but also care about new music, as we will see today and in the next few weeks; I got a few of their recent releases. Today I'd like to start with Philip Sanderson. As you may know, Sanderson began his musical career in the late 70s with the Storm Bugs and his Snatch Tapes label. For many years he worked his own name (next to a more ambient oriented side project as Ice Yacht), and 'Passionate Particles' can be seen as a re-issue but not of one particular old release. Rather, it is a collection of pieces from the last twenty years that found their way to a plethora of formats (LP, cassettes, downloads, CDR). I enjoyed Storm Bugs in the past, but Sanderson's work is totally my thing. It is a no-brainer that I picked his album first from the bundle of Klanggalerie. Since the release of 'On One Of Those Bends' (Vital Weekly 1177), I have paid particular attention to his work. There is something lovely pop music about his work. I recently (Vital Weekly 1290; two of the pieces from that cassette are also on this CD) connected to Sparks, especially in his vocal delivery. That is not yet as strong on the sixteen pieces on 'Passionate Particles', except for the two pieces from Not Even My Closest Friends', but poppy it certainly is. Not the naff kind that is popular with the kids these days, but lovely music for adults. All electronic and sometimes instrumental bring a fine balance to the album. I would think that if you love Sparks or The Residents (who have a strong presence in the Klanggalerie as well), Sanderson's music will go down well, even without the guitar parts that these days seem to play a more significant role with The Residents (so I am told, not being the biggest fan there; odd, come to think of it). Sanderson's music isn't per se uptempo and upbeat, but moody and introspective, next to being quirky and pleasant; another excellent act of balancing there. Obviously, you'd find none of these tunes in any top ten, which is a great pity. This is precisely the sort of music that deserves a bigger audience; if only the world would listen! Today it rained a lot, but this release put a big smile on my face. It went straight to repeat, just as yesterday. Next up is some more of his music, as I call it a day and I want to enjoy some more wacky tunes! (FdW)

 

From Vital Weekly 1322 February 2022

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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

 

 

 

 

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