D Minor - Research on Harmony - Variation 2

A small piano étude translated into color. The D Minor triad — D1, D3, A3, D4, D5, A5 — appears here as orange toward gray, red-violet and yellow-orange toward yellow, the chromesthetic translation of this chord. From D1 to A5, the étude breathes across the full keyboard.
Played Lent — slowly, meditatively, mp — at a gentle, conversational volume, legato — the notes flowing into one another. Rising from D1 (black) to A5 (yellow-orange) at the crest, the line folds back — an arch, a breath held and released. 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.