Jaan Patterson

Who is Jaan Patterson?

Jaan Patterson is a German composer and poet, and runs the Surrism-Phonoethics netlabel. He is best known for his various Dada and Surrealist inspired experimental music and spoken word projects — such as Undress Béton, André Pissoir and Dusk Euphoria. Additionally, together with Frater Surrallee, he works as Surrism on improvised music projects. Patterson's music has been played on numerous Community radio stations and Internet radio stations — including, Resonance FM, WFMU, NTNS Radio by Mark Stolk and L'étranger, Radio Panik. Since 2009, Patterson, together with Anthony Donovan has run the Classwar Karaoke netlabel, which releases quarterly compilations of experimental music and short-films, by artists from around the world.