Sinfin parados is an arrangement for two players of Sinfin, for solo vibraphone. Originally composed in January-July 2000, this was the third in a group of works for wind and percussion responding to the powerful imagery of the great rose windows of Chartres Cathedral. It reflects upon the South Rose, a bright Apocalypse vision, showing the Deity surrounded by eight censing angels, the four beasts of the Apocalypse and by twenty-four musicians bearing a variety of plucked instruments. The number seven is of significance in the Apocalypse, and in the architecture of this Cathedral.
So Sinfin has seven sections forming a complete circle, from skeletal mirror-chord sequence through plainchant and increasingly dance-like developments over the implicit 27-bar chord-sequence to a climax followed by a return of the chords, now given in full.