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Jaan Patterson
German composer and poet
Jaan Patterson is a German composer and poet, and runs the Surrism-Phonoethics netlabel he had founded 2007. He is best known for his various Dada and Surrealist inspired experimental music and spoken word projects—such as Undress Béton, André Pissoir, Crawl Max,[2] Dusk Euphoria, Reve Steich.[3] Additionally, together with Goran Ivkovic, he works as Surrism[4] on improvised music projects. Patterson's music has been played on numerous Community radio stations and Internet radio stations—including, Resonance FM,[5] WFMU,[6][7] Zoviet France,[8] NTNS Radio[9] by Mark Stolk and L'étranger, Radio Panik[10][11] & In Memory of John Peel Radio.[12]
Since 2010, Patterson, has a role as curator for WFMU's Free Music Archive. Later the same year, Patterson, started to curate together with Anthony Donovan (Murmurists)[13] the Classwar Karaoke[14] netlabel, which releases quarterly compilations of experimental music and short-films, by artists from around the world.
Some of his musical collaborations include—Anthony Donovan & Classwar Karaoke,[15] AG Davis,[16] Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer, Hopek Quirin, Alessandra Celletti,[17] William Davison (Recordism), Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten) & Vania Rovisco, Jeremy Gluck (The Barracudas), John M. Bennett, Lee Kwo & PostVerbal, Bryan Lewis Saunders,[18] Carmen Racovitza, J. Karl Bogartte, Leif Elggren, Dada AG, Yoshihiro Kikuchi, John Hyatt (The Three Johns), Kosta T,[19] Bernard Dumaine,[20] and Fake Cats Project.
