Watercolor Study in C5 (power chord) No. 1

A small piano étude translated into color. The C5 power chord — C0, C2, G3, G4 — appears here as red toward black and red-orange toward orange, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From C0 to G4, the étude breathes across the full keyboard.
Played Lent — slowly, meditatively, p — softly, with restraint, legato — the notes flowing into one another. Opening at G4 (orange), the line falls to C0 (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.