Harmony

When you don’t have Western harmony, music becomes textural. The sound - misty and impressionistic - doesn’t have to resolve to the next chord. Relish the colours of harmonies.
— Theo van Leeuwen

Musical harmony and disharmony, consonance and dissonance are observable in the psychotherapy setting. The interplay of voice and emotion, sounds and silences, are experienced as texture – rough and smooth; light and dark; warm and cold etc.


As regards harmony, colours and shapes are layered and arranged atop one another as the notes in a musical chord. Like those notes, the painted elements exist individually but are perceived as a whole, and their impact on the viewer/listener is the result of their interaction with one another. That visual chord, whether sweetly harmonious or peppered with dissonance, is the sensual offspring of a fundamentally musical juxtaposition.
— Christoper Rothko (son of Mark Rothko), 2015