Pantograph for solo piano

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A Pantograph was a machine used for copying that writers used before the
invention of photocopying. The pantogrpah was connected to the writer's
pen such that it would move another pen in the same direction as the
writer's hand, thus creating a second copy. The entire piece features
parallel motion in an allegory to the use of a pantograph. The composer
imagines that if the pantograph was anything like the spiorgraph he
played with as a child, not all went smoothly in actual use. Reflecting
this experience, within this piece is a canon that at first is at the 8th note
and later at the 16th note towards the end of the piece.