Jaan Patterson is a German composer and poet, and runs the Surrism-Phonoethics netlabel he founded in 2007.

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.

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.