Perfect Partner is an 80 minute ‘road movie’ starring Michael Pitt and Jamie Bochert, with a live soundtrack performed by Kim Gordon and Sonic Youth band mate, Jim O’Rourke, features legendary NYC lap-top composer Ikue Mori (former drummer of No Wave band DNA), percussionist Tim Barnes and DJ Olive. As the godmother of alternative rock and one of the founders of Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon is a truly creative spirit. Enigmatic, iconic, original and multi-faceted, she is increasingly working in the medium of visual arts and diversifying her music projects into more experimental territory.
 | | Kim Gordon and Partners live on stage |
In a response to America’s enchantment with car culture, this surreal psychodrama-cum-road movie unfolds to a thundering free rock live soundtrack whilst celebrating and venerating the enchantment of cars in American culture. The sound world of Perfect Partner is textural improvised music breaking into occasional songs that interact with the narrative of the film. Audiences across the UK should fasten their seatbelts for an invigorating trip through live music, video and projection in this one-off cross media adventure. The film tells a story of a young man in search of his mother. On his travels he falls in love with a woman who agrees to help him. Together they take a test drive, which becomes a road trip and develops into a faux-Godardian adventure.
 | | Perfect Partners: Stage & Screen |
Based around a dialogue mixed with car advertising copy, the lo-fi aesthetics of the film provide a setting to the music and action on stage, back projected onto a large screen. Perfect Partner stars Michael Pitt, fresh from his lead role as Kurt Cobain in Gus Van Sant’s forthcoming film, in which Gordon also makes her acting debut. Similarly impressive is the diverse career of Gordon’s Sonic Youth band mate Jim O’Rourke; more recently music consultant on hit US comedy School Of Rock, O’Rourke has been successfully bridging the gap between rock, jazz, electro-acoustic, improvisation and noise!
 | | Alt rock legends: Sonic Youth |
Other musicians on tour include DJ Olive who produces ‘vinyl scores’ for the turntable; palettes of sound or compositional components produced in his studio and then pressed on 12" vinyl. Awesome percussionist Tim Barnes can regularly be found performing at the NYC club, Tonic and also plays with the acclaimed band Text of Light. Perfect Partner is the type of living breathing dynamic, organic art happening too rarely outside of London. Even if you don’t know anything about its creators – treat yourself to an aural visual experience. | 
