C Octaves - Research on Harmony - Reflections 45

A small piano étude translated into color. The C Octaves octave — C1, C3, C4, C5 — appears here as red toward gray, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From C1 to C5, 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 C1 (black) to C5 (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.