RIŽIK is the Los Angeles-based artist, composer, and performer Hisham Dahud, whose work blends electronic production, live instrumentation, and cinematic storytelling. 

Drawing from atmospheric electronica, techno, film scoring, and improvisation, RIŽIK’s work moves fluidly between expansive electronic compositions, piano, live drumming, and hardware-based performance. Rather than being confined to a single genre or format, each project is guided by the emotional world it seeks to create. 

Live musicianship remains central to RIŽIK’s work, whether surrounded by electronic instruments, behind a drum kit, or at the piano. Across these formats, Dahud brings a musician’s physicality to electronic music — treating technology as something to be played, shaped, and responded to rather than simply programmed. 

That philosophy finds its fullest expression in TAME THE MACHINE, a distinct live performance format built entirely around real-time electronic performance. Using a custom ecosystem of synthesizers, drum machines, and signal processors — with no backing tracks — RIŽIK builds, manipulates, and reshapes the music in the moment, allowing each performance to evolve differently. In 2026, the concept expanded into a feature-length concert film captured during a 90-minute headline performance in Los Angeles. 

Before launching RIŽIK, Dahud spent more than a decade behind the scenes with iconic artists including Richie Hawtin, DJ Shadow, and film composer Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL). Those experiences continue to inform an artistic practice spanning records, composition, live performance, and film — all connected by a belief that technology is most powerful when it amplifies, rather than replaces, human expression.