Ab7#11 - Research on Harmony - Variations 3

A small piano étude translated into color. The Ab7#11 dominant seventh sharp eleven chord — Ab0, Ab2, C3, D3, C4, D5, C6 — appears here as blue toward black, red, blue-violet, green and orange, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From Ab0 to C6, the étude breathes across the full keyboard.
Played Lent — slowly, meditatively, mp — at a gentle, conversational volume. Rising from Ab0 (black) to C6 (light 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.