C Major - Research on Harmony - Variation 9

A small piano étude translated into color. The C Major triad — C1, G5, E6 — appears here as red toward black, yellow and red-orange, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From C1 to E6, the étude breathes across the full keyboard.

Played Lent — slowly, meditatively, mp — at a gentle, conversational volume, legato — the notes flowing into one another. Opening at E6 (light red-orange), the line falls to C1 (black) — the phrase finding its resolution in the bass.

Arnaud wrote it in triple time, the melody moves in a quiet, waltz-like motion.
This painting belongs to my Harmonic Crossing 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.