M.Sayyid

M.Sayyid (born Maurice Mboya Greene July 10 1970) is a lyricist, producer, visual artist and a founding member of The New York based Alternative hip hop group Antipop Consortium. In 2017 he was the subject of a feature article in Noisey Magazine covering his move to Paris and his mixtape Error Tape 1. In 2018 the French music television series Tracks ARTE covered the artist in a mini-documentary highlighting his work. Later that year he was invited by Sónar to perform at Sónar by Day. He has appeared in a “how-to” for Billboard (magazine) in 2009 where he was applauded for his use of the MPC 2000XL and plays the role of professor in a 2 part series called "Fire in the MP". His visual work has been published in Arts Magazine in 2012 where he was commissioned to create a piece for the "carte blanche" section of the magazine. 
== Releases ==
* Outside the Box , maxi single (2003)
* Airborn Audio - Airborn Audio (2003) 
* Airborn Audio - Close Encounters (2005)
* M.Sayyid / DJ Raedawn - Twilight Zone (2006)
* Electric Arms - Virtual Tour (2009): a flash animated website. Created and programed by the artist.
* Error Tape 1 (2017) 
* Error Tape 2 (in progress at the time of writing this article)
=== Music ===
* Mumia 911 - Bloody Murder (1999) is a posse cut dedicated to the freeing of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. M.Sayyid was applauded for his guest appearance on the track solidifying him and by extension his bands recognition amongst the heavily competitive and critical late 90s Underground hip hop. Produced by D.I.T.C. (album).
* MF Doom Vicktor Vaughn (2004) Never Dead is a concept story about the character Viktor Vaughn in high school. M.Sayyid plays the character Curt Strifa trading verses in this abstracted teen folie. M.Sayyid talks about the collaboration in a tribute show dedicated to the memory of MF Doom. 
* Lazer Sword (2010) - Topflites ft. M.Sayyid
* Modeselektor M Town (2011) - Humanized ft. M.Sayyid and High Priest
===Experimental Cinema Projects ===
* The Snorks a concert for creatures (Loris Greaud 2012) This short experimental film is written in prose about the imaginary world of deep underwater sea life. Underwater scenes of divers and bioluminescence sea creatures abound as Charlotte Rampling plays a wondering writer searching for a story in New York City. David Lynch plays the voice of an almighty spirit in this visual tale of wonder.
* Grace and the Color of Sound is a multi media projection containing futuristic landscapes was performed by M.Sayyid for SONAR festival Sonar by Day 2018. In this piece M.Sayyid used projections as a backdrop for various tracks from the mixtape Error Tape 1. Coordinating stage postion his interaction with geometric shapes during songs kept the pulse interactive exploring the possibilities of stage performance and digital mapping. 
* AURORE (directed by Laetitia Masson) is a series about a women trying to break away from a dark past. Diffused by Arte in 2017. M.Sayyid (Maurice Greene) Plays the role of Leonard a disgruntled American making a living in the mountains as a teacher, secluded from society, who finds himself seduced by a former student on the run named Aurore (played by Elodie Boucher). 
=== Moving to Paris ===
During the fall of 2013 with the completion of the APC Flouresent Black Tour, Sayyid moved to Paris. An article on his move to France and his work as a performance coach appeared in the September issue of NOISEY VICE found here .
In December 2017, Tracks ARTE published a biopic on M.Sayyid, his life and band accomplishments.
== Visual Art ==
Inspired by punk rock and skate zines of the 1980s, M.Sayyid began to experiment with photo copy zine based art. He evolved during the Freestylin Magazine era of the mid to late 80s. In 1990 M.Sayyid was invited by Andy Jenkins to be in a group show called the Basement. This experience was confidence building and represents the artist doorway into the Arts. Between 1988 and the summer of 1993 the artist immersed himself in research and became self taught in his understanding of movements ranging from Dada to the Neo-expressionism. He returned to imagery in 2007 becoming passionality involved with learning and creating 2D Animation. This work would evolve into a number of 2D motion Posters with short beat based loops. 
In 2007 M.Sayyid Started expressing himself using the 2D animated imagery and by 2009 he developed a body of digital motion posters including an Illustrated moving Mixtape and a series called infinity and the last laugh which caught the attention of Arts Magazine. 
In May 2012 Arts Magazine commissioned and printed his work as a 2 page spread titled Samuel, infinity and the last laugh which was a still image from a moving .swf file.
Category:1970 births
Category:American lyricists
Category:American producers 
Category:Visual arts