Blurring the Boundaries 

Blur­ring the Bound­aries rep­re­sents a cross-dis­ci­pli­nary col­lab­o­ra­tion between Gift
Tshu­ma, Joel Daze and Vibra­Fu­sion­Lab. BtB focus­es on cre­at­ing access and
oppor­tu­ni­ty through com­mu­ni­ty, design, and the arts. The orga­ni­za­tion has been
devel­op­ing cus­tom soft­ware and hard­ware resources over the last few years,
includ­ing a selec­tion of artist toolk­its to devel­op open-source instru­ments and
sound art pieces.

Gift Tshu­ma, born in Zim­bab­we, doesn’t self-iden­ti­fy as your ordi­nary R&B Gospel
singer.  Gift is the co- founder and leader of his ensem­ble: Unit­ed Tribu­la­tion Choir,
which he found­ed twelve years ago.  He is a strong sup­port­er of diver­si­ty, and he
extends his reach by singing in mul­ti­ple lan­guages and per­form­ing in a broad array
of styles includ­ing beat­box­ing and live looping.

Joël Dazé is a bilin­gual Composer/ Musi­cian; Adap­tive Music Spe­cial­ist and a
Pro­duc­tion Man­ag­er and self-iden­ti­fies as liv­ing with near total blind­ness and as a
neu­ro­di­verse indi­vid­ual liv­ing with synaesthesia.

Our key part­ners and col­lab­o­ra­tors have includ­ed: Drake
Music (UK),  MilieuxMake/Education Mak­ers  (QC), Pro­peller Dance (ON) and CAMiN
(Cana­di­an Acces­si­ble Musi­cal Instru­ments Network).

Blur­ring the Boundaries