F Minor - Research on Harmony - Variations 24

A small piano étude translated into color. The F Minor triad — F1, F2, C3, F4, A4, A5, Ab6 — appears here as red-violet toward black, blue toward yellow-orange and red, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From F1 to Ab6, the étude breathes across the full keyboard. Some accents — yellow-orange — appear as tensions outside the chord tones.
Played Modéré — at a measured, moderate tempo, p — softly, with restraint, legato — the notes flowing into one another. Dipping down to F1 (black) before returning, the line traces a valley — an inward gesture. 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.