Watercolor Study in C Major No. 1

A small piano étude translated into color. The Watercolor Study in C Major No. 1 triad — C0, C2, G3, E4 — appears here as red toward black, yellow toward yellow-orange and red-orange toward orange, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From C0 to E4, the étude breathes across the full keyboard.
Played Lent — slowly, meditatively, p — softly, with restraint, legato — the notes flowing into one another. Rising from C0 (black) to E4 (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 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.