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From the beginning of the installation "Swell and Cords", Tristan Ménez has identified the possibilities offered by vibrations on material. In January 2019, he wanted to produce a live performance around "Bloom" installation. A collaboration has started with Benjamin Le Baron to work on the sound composition. The exploration and application of their knowledge of vibrations, matter and sound gradually led them to another challenge : to develop a sound and visual composition by vibrating materials placed on a plexiglass plate with the help of loudspeakers. In spring 2019, the integration of fluids brough a new plastic/pictorial dimension to the project.

The device allows both sound and image to be produced thanks to vibrations, which creates a sound and visual landscape, a synesthesia. Vibrations flowing through the liquid, straying it, deforming it, exploding it, permit for instance the creation of balls and keep them on the plexiglass plate. The movement is also produced by the simple diffusion of liquid, without vibrations. Some paint pigments, for example, produce astonishing physical phenomena when they get in contact with another liquid. Musical composition and melodies reinforce the sought-after artistic universe, science fiction. The bass pulsations, resulting from the vibrations running through the plexiglass plate, brings, on the other hand, a minimal aesthetic to the performance, between Drone and Art Sonore.

Far from simple demonstration, Instabilities project aims to produce an artistic discourse by interpreting various scientific experiments on fluids such as Supermarchers or Marangoni Fragmentations.

The macro video capture of these moving liquids, and their projection on a large screen, allow the spectators, by their imagination, to be transported into a world without scale reference. This loss of reference also allows for a play between abstraction and representation of reality, between science and science fiction.