C Major - Research on Harmony - Variations 22

A small piano étude translated into color. The C Major triad — C0, C2, G3, G4, E5, E6 — appears here as red toward black, yellow toward yellow-orange and red-orange, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From C0 to E6, the étude breathes across the full keyboard. Some accents — blue-violet — appear as tensions outside the chord tones.
Played Lent — slowly, meditatively, mp — at a gentle, conversational volume. Rising from C0 (black) to E6 (light yellow) 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.