Jaan Patterson is a German

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

, and runs the Surrism-Phonoethics

netlabel A netlabel (also online label, web label, digi label, MP3 label or download label) is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio formats (such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or WAV) over the Internet. While similar to traditiona ...

he had founded 2007. He is best known for his various

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 192 ...

and

Surrealist Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to l ...

inspired

experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...

and

spoken word Spoken word refers to an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a late 20th century continuation of an ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetics of ...

projects—such as Undress Béton, André Pissoir, Crawl Max, Dusk Euphoria, Reve Steich. Additionally, together with Goran Ivkovic, he works as Surrism on

improvised music Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous ...

projects. Patterson's music has been played on numerous

Community radio stations Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular ...

and

Internet radio Online radio (also web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio, IP radio, Internet radio) is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet. Broadcasting on the Internet is usually referred to as webcasting since it is not transmitted ...

stations—including,

Resonance FM Resonance 104.4 FM is a London based non-profit community radio station specialising in the arts run by the London Musicians' Collective (LMC). The station is staffed by four permanent staff members, including programme controller Ed Baxter and ...

WFMU WFMU is a listener-supported, independent community radio station, licensed to East Orange, New Jersey. Since 1998 its studios and operating facilities have been headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. It broadcasts locally at 91.1 Mhz FM, in ...

Zoviet France Zoviet France (also known as :$OVIET:FRANCE:, Soviet France, :Zoviet-France: and latterly usually written as :zoviet*france:) are a music group from Newcastle upon Tyne in north east England. While often dissonant and made of industrial textu ...

, NTNS Radio by Mark Stolk and L'étranger, Radio Panik & In Memory of John Peel Radio. Since 2010, Patterson, has a role as curator for WFMU's

Free Music Archive The Free Music Archive or FMA is an online repository of royalty-free music. Established in 2009 by the East Orange, New Jersey community radio station WFMU and in cooperation with fellow stations KBOO and KEXP, it aims to provide music under Cre ...

. Later the same year, Patterson, started to curate together with Anthony Donovan (Murmurists) the Classwar Karaoke

, which releases quarterly compilations of

and

short-film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

s, by artists from around the world. Some of his musical collaborations include—Anthony Donovan & Classwar Karaoke, AG Davis,

Kommissar Hjuler Kommissar Hjuler (born Detlev Hjuler; 1967) works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist, film maker and police officer at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. He often works together wit ...

Mama Baer Mama Baer (born Andrea Katharina Ingeborg Göthling; 29 October 1981) is a German sound recordist of noise music and post-industrial music. She is a filmmaker and visual artist at Flensburg. She has had solo and group art exhibitions around the worl ...

, Hopek Quirin,

Alessandra Celletti Alessandra Celletti (born 6 June 1966) is an Italian pianist, vocalist, songwriter and composer, best known as an interpreter of Erik Satie. Biography Alessandra Celletti comes from a purely classical background, graduating at the Conservato ...

, William Davison (Recordism),

Jochen Arbeit Jochen is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Jochen Asche, East German luger, competed during the 1960s *Jochen Böhler (born 1969), German historian, specializing in the history of World War II *Jochen Babock (born 1953), East G ...

(

Einstürzende Neubauten (, 'Collapsing New Buildings') is a German experimental music group, formed in West Berlin in 1980. The group is currently composed of founding members Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals; guitar; keyboard) and N.U. Unruh (custom-made instruments; perc ...

) & Vania Rovisco, Jeremy Gluck (

The Barracudas The Barracudas are an English surf music, surf rock band formed in late 1978. The band's original line-up consisted of Jeremy Gluck (Singing, vocals), Robin Wills (guitar and vocals), Starkie Phillips (Bass guitar, bass and vocals) and Adam Phil ...

John M. Bennett John M. Bennett (born 1942, in Chicago) is an American experimental text, sound, and visual poet. Personal life Bennett was born in 1942 in Chicago. After World War II he spent three years of his childhood living in Japan, where his fathe ...

, Lee Kwo & PostVerbal,

Bryan Lewis Saunders Bryan Lewis Saunders (born 1969, in Washington, D.C.) is an endurance artist, a performance artist, videographer, performance poet, and self-portrait painter known for his disturbing spoken word rants, tragic art performances and stand-up trage ...

, Carmen Racovitza, J. Karl Bogartte,

Leif Elggren Leif Elggren (born 1950, Linköping, Sweden), is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm. Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of ...

, Dada AG, Yoshihiro Kikuchi, John Hyatt (

The Three Johns The Three Johns were an English post-punk/indie rock band formed in 1981 in Leeds, England, originally consisting of guitarist Jon Langford (co-founder of the Mekons), vocalist John Hyatt and bassist Phillip "John" Brennan, augmented by a drum ...

), Kosta T,

Bernard Dumaine Bernard Dumaine (born August 20, 1953, in Angoulême, France) is a French artist best known for his work in photorealism and surrealism styles and for his background designs for television cartoons. He works in a variety of media, including oil pa ...

, and Fake Cats Project.

Discography

* Tarentaliogy Defloration (Surrism-Phonoethics 2008) * Interiéur (Surrism-Phonoethics 2008) * The 16,370 Character (Surrism-Phonoethics 2008) * Postlude Presumption Architecture (Surrism-Phonoethics 2009) * Handmade Temper (Surrism-Phonoethics 2009) * Sat Du Pond (Surrism-Phonoethics 2010) * Stuckhousing Quantum Gums (Surrism-Phonoethics 2010) *

/ Jaan Patterson - W.C. (Bubutz Records 2011) * El Salmon Poseido (Surrism-Phonoethics 2013) * Crystallization of the Quantum Availability (Surrism-Phonoethics 2014) * Contemporary Teleportation (Surrism-Phonoethics 2014) * Headless Poets & The Album that Composed Itself with AG Davis ( Surrism-Phonoethics 2014) * The Dark Side of Chewing Gums (Classwar Karaoke 2015) * Music for Shadows ( Surrism-Phonoethics 2015) * suRRism - If I appear as a God, you will be no more than I ( Surrism-Phonoethics/Alrealon Musique 2016)

Videography

* Surround the Gap (2008) * Mary Exceeded Her Handkerchief (2009) * Rejected Trust Leaves you Stained (2009) * André Pissoir on Discussion (2010) * EOS (2010) * wwwArt in VIVO (2010) * Centered Closets (2010) *

& Jaan Patterson - 'Centered Envelope (Red)' (2011) *

& Jaan Patterson - 'WC' (2011) * Jaan Patterson and Zaro Ostrich Lunch 'Niño Patata Erster Satz für 77 Stimmen' * Jaan Patterson & Zaro Ostrich Lunch - 'Underwater Clown' (2014)

Bibliography

* Surrism Manifesto (2007) * Postverbal Manifesto (A collaboration between Lee Kwo & Jaan Patterson (2008) * The Flourish Béton Pamphlet (2009) * Chew Facts on Literature (2009) * The Flourish Béton. Introduction "Jaan Patterson" (suRRism 2015) * Geständnisse. Das Buch der Vorgeschichten "Jaan Patterson" (suRRism 2015) * Peculiar Mormyrid. A Surrealist Journal "Peculiar Mormyrid 1.0 Spring 2015" * Peculiar Mormyrid. A Surrealist Journal "Peculiar Mormyrid Issue 3 2016" Peculiar Mormyrid. A Surrealist Journal http://peculiarmormyrid.com/issue-3/

References

External links

Official Website

Discogs

Surrism Phonoethics Discogs

Surrism-Phonoethics Official Site

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