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.”
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.”