Equator Loops
for solo piano
(1999/2000)
duration: 6’
GRT • 076
CD available with score
Firestarters
II
Emma
Sayers, piano
Promethean Editions
audio sample
score
available from
Promethean Editions
program note
The title of this
piece refers to the use of contrary motion, which defines
its thematic material. The 'loops’ gradually expand but
always return to the ‘equator’ (the central tone of ‘D’).
The title is a slight play on John Adams’
Shaker
Loops, which
itself was also a play on words. The overall musical
structure of modal alternation is based on Arvo
Pärt’s Te
Deum (which I
analysed for my PhD thesis) and Equator Loops is accordingly dedicated to Pärt.