C Octaves - Research on Harmony - Reflections 44

A small piano étude translated into color. The C Octaves octave — C0, D3, A4, A5 — appears here as red toward black, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From C0 to A5, the étude breathes across the full keyboard. Some accents — orange and yellow-orange — appear as tensions outside the chord tones.
Played Lent — slowly, meditatively, p — softly, with restraint, legato — the notes flowing into one another. Rising from C0 (black) to A5 (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.