Imperfect Film

Live audiovisual performance

SHXCXCHCXSH’s live A/V collaboration with the filmmaker Pedro Maia, explores analogue film and aims to pay tribute to celluloid film – the main raw material used by cinema during its first century of existence – offering an exploration of both its qualities and limitations. Based on images collected in 16mm films, damaged by the passage of time, the experience of cinema is brought back to its essentials: light and movement.

Pedro Maia, a Portuguese filmmaker working mostly around the concept of analogue cinema, exploring the medium's potentiality, and expanding the aesthetic and technological “heritage” of the classic films procedures of working with 16mm and 8mm material. He collaborates with numerous musicians across the rock and electronic scene and his works have been presented at numerous film festivals and galleries. Since 2004, he has been developing his live cinema concept, manipulating images in real time and interacting with sound, collaborating with several musicians such as Panda Bear, Lee Ranaldo, Fennesz, Vessel, Craig Leon, Demdike Stare, Sandro Perri, Shackleton, Jacaszek, Tropic of Cancer, and others.

The once industrial city of Norrköping in eastern Sweden may not be the techno mecca of the world but it's the hometown of two members of SHXCXCHCXSH, who consider it a perfect place to focus on music. They met in Stockholm years backand started sharing love for the darker and more experimental realms of techno, soon followed by the natural progression of working on music together. Together they share a broad range of musical backgrounds and tastes, from hip hop to rock-pop, therefore bringing diverse knowledge and experience to shape their unique sounds and ideas into deadly serious techno born out of the elements of noise, drone, glitch, broken beats, pounding industrial, and much more. Released in June 2016, their 3rd full-length album SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs is composed of the soundscape and atmosphere that meant to provide a deeper level of sonic connection with SHXCXCHCXSH’s new A/V project with Pedro Maia. Their newest statement is described as “an unbound, rolling matrix of white noise and wrought iron percussion, replete with disembodied choirs that pan uncomfortably in and out of the sonic hinterland.”