D7 - Research on Harmony - Variations 4

A small piano étude translated into color. The D7 dominant seventh chord — D1, D3, D#3, C4, D4, D5 — appears here as orange toward black, green, yellow-orange and red toward red-orange, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From D1 to D5, the étude breathes across the full keyboard. Some accents — blue-violet — appear as tensions outside the chord tones.
Played Lent — slowly, meditatively, p — softly, with restraint, legato — the notes flowing into one another. Rising from D1 (black) to D5 (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.