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Rosetta Stone was inspired by the ancient black granite stele inscribed with a decree from King Ptolemy I in three different languages. The stone provided the key to an understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Nobles’ pieces often allow a great deal of flexibility to the performers with respect to the rhythms of given melodic/harmonic material. In Rosetta Stone, the reverse is true: exact rhythms are specified but the pitched material is free to be spontaneously decided during performance.
Similar to the actual Rosetta Stone, the three performers have essentially the same material, in the form of an almost perfect canon, but they each choose, in the moment, their own ‘language’. Dr. Papador’s realization of the work is scored for marimbas playing double stopped material in the key of Eb minor. The interplay of the instruments and Nobles’ canonic rhythms gives the work a mbira-like hocketed musical texture. Nicholas Papador, Greg Samek, and Justin Skalaa gave the premiere performance of Rosetta Stone (using resonating bell instruments) in fall 2016. The work is dedicated to John Cage.

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from Marimba Collage, released February 1, 2022
Nicholas Papador is a percussionist and composer based in Windsor, Ontario who specializes in contemporary music. He is a founding member of Noiseborder Ensemble and Marassa Duo. Papador has performed at the Transplanted Roots Percussion Research Symposium, Puerto Rico Conservatory International Percussion Festivals, the Open Ears Festival of New Music’s Environmental Rhythms, and has been featured five times at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC). Papador can be heard on numerous CD recordings, including the 2019 Marassa Duo album and the 2015 solo recording Points of Departure released by Centrediscs. He appears as a performer in the 2014 Matthew Barney/Jonathan Bepler film River of Fundament. An Associate Composer with the Canadian Music Centre, his compositions also appear with Keyboard Percussion Publications, Alfred Publications, Studio 4 Music, House Panther Press, and Bachovich Music. Papador has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Social Sciences Humanities Research Council, and Canada Foundation for Innovation. Nicholas Papador is a Yamaha Performing Artist and an artist endorser for Vic Firth Sticks and Mallets, Sabian Cymbals, and Evans Drumheads. He is Associate Professor of Music at the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor.


JUNO award-winning composer Jordan Nobles is known for creating music filled with an “unearthly beauty” (Mondomagazine) that makes listeners want to “close (their) eyes and transcend into a cloud of music” (Discorder Magazine). He has received many honours in recent years including a JUNO Award, a Western Canadian Music Award, and numerous International prizes. He was also the recipient of Jan V. Matejcek Award from SOCAN in recognition of his “overall success in ‘New Classical Music’” and was honoured with the “Barbara Pentland Award of Excellence” from the Canadian Music Centre for his “extraordinary contribution to Canadian Music.” His focus is spatial music, making musicians stand in weird places with stopwatches, and composing works for open instrumentation. He lives in Deep Cove, British Columbia with his wife Kelly, and son Julian.

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