G Major - Research on Harmony - Variations 11

A small piano étude translated into color. The G Major triad — G2, G3, D4, D5, B7 — appears here as red-orange toward black, yellow-green toward white and orange, the chromesthetic translation of this chord. From G2 to B7, the étude breathes across the full keyboard.

Played Lent — slowly, meditatively, p — softly, with restraint, legato — the notes flowing into one another. Rising from G2 (black) to B7 (silver) 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.