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David Babin and Adrien Mondot met in the early 2000s at the Délirium, an avant-garde third-rate venue in the heart of Avignon and its festival. One was having fun trying out some freshly written songs on the piano, the other juggling to forget his daily routine as a computer researcher. In this context of freedom and possibilities, a friendship and mutual admiration were born.

Today, David − now babx − has carved out a unique place for himself on the French music scene. While Adrien − with the company Adrien M & Claire B − has fun creating shows and installations at the crossroads of the performing and visual arts, where the body takes its place at the heart of the images, combining craft and digital devices.

Piano piano embodies their mad desire to revive the place where they left off twenty years ago: daydreaming, experimentation and the pleasure of playing. And so to get out of their comfort zone − David by abandoning singing to find himself alone, facing his piano and the instrumental repertoire of his latest album, "A house with a piano in it"; Adrien by rediscovering the stage and the very real attraction of a ball, the risk of a fall.

On stage, literally immersed in an "image-space", the piano and the two performers become the protagonists of a dreamlike stroll between abstraction and impressionism. Imbued with a simple blend of sound and vision, the image embodies the missing notes of the music, and vice versa. To make the vibrations of the air visible, to feel the resonance of a chord, but also to see the silence, and hear the darkness...