Points of Departure

When Nicholas Papador moved to Canada in 2005 he started participating in the Windsor Canadian Music Festival presented annually by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra and University of Windsor. Over the course of several years, and after exposure to a fantastic body of work by a range of composers, he became enthralled with the rich repertoire of contemporary Canadian solo percussion music. The title of this recording is the English translation of Fran�ois Rose's Points d'emergence, and the idea of borders-as simultaneously rigid and porous-links the composers and the cultural and aesthetic influences emerging in their music. Fran�ois Rose is a French Canadian living in the U.S; Linda Catlin Smith, producer Ray Dillard, and myself are American born, but now living in Canada. Nicolas Gilbert's work crosses genre and applies extra musical narrative touches to his solo vibraphone piece; Catlin Smith's work, coincidentally enough, also is inspired by literature. Christien Ledroit engages punk