E Minor - Research on Harmony - Variation 2

A small piano étude translated into color. The E Minor triad — E1, C#3, E4, B4, G5, B5, G7 — appears here as yellow toward black, red-orange toward orange and yellow-green, the chromesthetic translation of this chord. From E1 to G7, the étude breathes across the full keyboard. Some accents — blue-green — appear as tensions outside the chord tones.
Played Animé — with animation and a sense of forward motion, mp — at a gentle, conversational volume, legato — the notes flowing into one another. Dipping down to E1 (black) before returning, the line traces a valley — an inward gesture. Arnaud wrote it in four, the pulse walks with a steady, even tread.
This painting belongs to my Synesthetic Explorations series, an ongoing practice of translating harmonic relationships into visual form. Each variation is a study — direct, unadorned, focused on the essential character of the chord.