Riz MC presents possibly the silliest idea ever

There’s no doubt that Riz Ahmed is a talented actor, with notable leading roles in Shifty and Chris Morris’s new Four Lions. But his parallel music career as Riz MC? Er, not so good. And there’s only one thing worse than dodgy music – “high concept” dodgy music.

This from a press release received today:

“MICroscope initiates you into the sonic war that rages all around us… where the viral power of music and the physical force of sound vibrations are used by corporations and officialdom to control airwaves, physical and digital space, and ultimately to control the listeners themselves. The secretive, outlawed MICroscope resistance controversially fight fire with fire, initiating recruits and immunizing the public with their own psychsonics, and S.I.C.k. (sonic immersion for cerebral kinesis).

“Due to be unveiled in September this year, RIZ mc’s debut album MICroscope sets him apart as a singular voice with an innovative and bold musical vision. The album comes coupled with a groundbreaking high concept live show and trans-media online experience: rather than perform his album live, Riz MC has created an interactive live experience in which the audience become part of the show itself.

“The music will indeed be played (fans will get to hear music from the forthcoming album), but through a themed storyline complete with actors/musicians – the only way to understand this highly psychological experience is to experience it for oneself. This show is an innovation for live music performance and for the music industry as a business model. The show debuted as a work-in-progress at Sadlers Wells Theatre in November 2009, and will tour at the end of 2010.

“It will also show at Latitude Festival this July.  At the live show and online, MICroscope invites you into a world of secret agencies, experiments, sound wars, and mind control in a battle of bass and beats. A secret corporate / government programme of Sonic Immersion for Cerebral Kinesis (S.I.C.K.) hunts R12MC (Resistance AGENT 12 – music & control) who leads the MICroscope sonic resistance and are fighting back with their own sonic immersions. The results (experience of the show) will move your mind.  ”

Definitely won’t see you there.

This entry was posted on Friday, May 7th, 2010 at 12:27 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Andrew

what the fuck are you on about. Riz is great, and this sounds fantastic.
Vee

Glad I won't see you there cos I'd knock you out if I did. He's brilliant.
darrylpandy

this does indeed sound ludicrous.

“A secret corporate / government programme of Sonic Immersion for Cerebral Kinesis (S.I.C.K.) hunts R12MC (Resistance AGENT 12 – music & control) who leads the MICroscope sonic resistance and are fighting back with their own sonic immersion”

lol
Melissa

Maybe it's literally something a bit beyond him turning up and doing half arsed sets. Sounds brilliant, and as for being a bit “dodgy”. He's not, he's Incisive and eloquent.
Karl

For a website that cites it's tagline as 'art is music music is art' all over it, bit hypocritical to be critical of 'high concept' music which is attempting to be cross-artsy ain't it?

The only thing that's dodgy is that you just quoted what looks like an entire press release and added a couple of lines to save having to do any real work – like listening to music, which is actually alright and different, before you write about it.

And as for Darrylpandy below, the only thing that's ludicrous is your name mate.
newvt

nothing says hardman like a riz mc fan.
themightychew

i saw him supportingcompering for Dan le SacScroobius Doobius and he was amazing. FACT, i will nick your downloads, but i’ll leave your narrow minded opinions. thank you.

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