Jaan Patterson | |
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 by Jaan Patterson | |
| Born | Jaan Patterson 20th century |
| Known for | Computer music, video, spoken word, poetry, performance art |
| Notable work | Tarentaliogy Defloration, Interiéur, Music for Shadows, Surrism Manifesto, The Dark Side of Chewing Gums |
| Movement | Surrism |
| Awards | Honorable Mention for WFMU and Free Music Archive's Masters Remastered [1] |
Jaan Patterson is a German composer and poet, and runs the Surrism-Phonoethics netlabel he founded in 2007.
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He is known for his various Dada- and Surrealist-inspired experimental-music and spoken-word projects, including Undress Béton, André Pissoir, Crawl Max, [2] Dusk Euphoria, and 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] and 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.
