Watercolor Study in Bb Major No. 1

A small piano étude translated into color. The Watercolor Study in Bb Major No. 1 triad — Bb0, Bb2, F3, D4, Bb5 — appears here as violet toward black, orange and red-violet toward red, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From Bb0 to Bb5, 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 Bb0 (black) to Bb5 (light gray) 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.