MXGPU, the collaborative project of Moullinex and GPU Panic, presents Live Over Lisbon, a forty-five-minute cinematic concert film directed by André Tentúgal. Performed and recorded entirely live, the project reimagines the duo’s debut album, Sudden Light, through an audiovisual experiment that challenges gravity, scale, and the definition of performance itself.
The concert was captured fifteen metres above the Tejo River on a floating stage lifted by PODEROSA, a forty-metre vintage port crane from the 1980s. Positioned in front of MAAT and beneath the 25 de Abril Bridge, the performance unfolds without an audience, framed only by Lisbon’s horizon. The result is a visually arresting document of sound and structure. No playback, no overdubs, only the raw dialogue between human energy and the natural environment.
Live Over Lisbon revisits Sudden Light highlights such as Take Me Home (Live) and Into Flames (Live), alongside two unreleased reworks, See Me Burn and Luz. Each piece finds new form within the setting, its tension mirrored in the sky, the metal, and the shifting light. What begins as a live session becomes an architectural experience, dissolving boundaries between music and landscape.
“After Sudden Light, we wanted to explore how far we could push the feeling of limitlessness,” explains MXGPU. “Performing above the river felt like dissolving into the elements—the city, the sky, and the sound all becoming one.” Directed with cinematic precision by Tentúgal, the film amplifies MXGPU’s creative ethos: electronic music as a living organism. Blending technology and vulnerability, Live Over Lisbon turns Lisbon itself into an instrument. This is a reminder that performance, when stripped of spectacle, can still feel transcendent.