As co-founder of The Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie is regarded as a musical visionary.

The distinctive sonic landscapes which have become his trademark have now been used to create a live soundtrack performance, The Lumiere.

In a project which debuted at the NFT in London last year, Robin, who has taken a break from his current full-time band, Violet Indiana, will be playing guitar-based instrumentals to accompany his animated film.

The actual content of the film is a bit of a mystery - but the music has been described as a "sublime collection of stunningly atmospheric guitar-based instrumentals of truly hypnotic beauty". Apparently anyone who knows anything about The Cocteau Twins won't be disappointed.

His programme will differ at each performance. "Lumiere has always been a project which evolves, as it has no fixed music, rather a few key areas where I play certain types of things," says Robin.

"The show that I will do in Budapest, for example, bears very little resemblance to the show I played in Paris recently, and none at all to the shows I played last November in the US.

"As ever, the practical issues dominate the artistic ones which is my way of saying that the equipment I use is dictated by how many kilos of baggage allowance I have on the plane!"

He is, however, likely to draw from Imperial, the instrumental album he released in 2003, and Mysterious Skin, his recent soundtrack to Gregg Araki's award-winning film. It is also likely to feature tracks from his new album Continental.

The film has been exhaustively assembled with the same craft Robin has always used in his music - an interweaving and layering of images, creating distinct moods reflected by the music.

"I've been tweaking certain elements," Robin says. "I've also been amending little parts here and there which I wasn't happy with last time I did a cut.

"I'm happy to say most of the peformances will be in widescreen."

As the founder member of the seminal Cocteau Twins, Robin (along with Simon Raymonde and Liz Fraser) created some of the most beautiful music of the past two decades, which was influential not only in defining the post-punk sound of the Eighties but also inspired generations of musicians as diverse as Prince, Madonna, Annie Lennox and My Bloody Valentine.

Starts 8.45pm, tickets cost £12/£14.50. Call 08708 505465.