Rhythms of Access

Episode 9 of the Rhythms of Access Podcast features Gift Tshuma speaking with Michael Carter entitled "Jazz,Justice, and the Classroom". Michael Carter is a teacher, disability activist, and musician. He earned degrees in Jazz Performance from Brandon University and the University of Toronto before pursuing his education degree at York University. As a disabled person, his work is rooted...

Episode 8 of the Rhythms of Access Podcast features Gift Tshuma speaking with Jason Dasent in a discussion entitled Sonic Inclusion – Designing an Accessible Music Industry. Jason Dasent is a visually impaired Music Producer, Audio Engineer and Accessibility Consultant from Trinidad, and is now based in the UK.For over 25 years, he has, and continues to work in several areas of the music industry...

Episode 7 of the Rhythms of Access Podcast features Gift Tshuma speaking with Indra Egan in a discussion entitled "Beyond the Keyboard - Music as a Force for Change". Indra Egan's Biography Praised for her expressivity and "impressive command of the keyboard" (Prince George Citizen), Persian-Canadian pianist and vocal coach Indra Egan (she/her) is currently based in Halifax...

Episode 6 of the Rhythms of Access podcast features Robin Hahn. Robin is a joyfully disabled operatic soprano, stage director, music educator and disability advocate who has performed on stages around the world, from Germany to New York to Disneyland. Hailed as “sublime, with a beautiful resonant soprano full of colour” (Opera Canada), her recent performances include appearances as Ms Pinkerton in...

Based in Toronto, Ontario in Canada, Diane Kolin is a French-born Canadian singer, a music educator, and a voice teacher. Her low voice brings her to explore various genres, from jazz to Baroque music and French chanson repertoire. She teaches voice to children and adults. She developed pedagogical tools and workshops for singers with disabilities to learn how to sing with a changing body or from...

Episode 4 of the podcast features a pioneering disabled artist, John Kelly. John has broken new ground and continues to encourage change through his music, practice and collaboration with others. He identifies strongly as a Disabled Person. He has performed many gigs, 2 major Paralympic events and toured internationally with the brilliant Extraordinary Bodies circus company and Graeae Theatre Comp...

Episode 3 features Sean Lee, the Director of Programming at Tangled Arts + Disability Gallery in Toronto, Canada. Sean (he/they) is an artist and curator exploring the assertion of disability art as the last avant-garde. Orienting towards a "crip horizon", his practice explores the transformative possibilities of access aesthetics as an embodied politic that can desire the ways disabilit...

Episode 2 features Jo-anne Cox. Jo-anne is a creative performer/composer based in London, UK. As well as performing solo, she collaborates with artists and musicians, playing with bands and ensembles. She is a composer of seriously sensuous work for electric cello who loves cross-artform collaboration and audience interactive performance. Her unique work to date spans across electronic, experiment...

Rhythms of a Access is a podcast featuring disabled musicians and creative professionals in conversation with host Gift Tshuma. This episode features Miss Jacqui, a multi-talented artist who is known for her powerful poetry and soulful music. As a wheelchair user herself, she has faced many challenges and obstacles throughout her life, but Miss Jacqui has never let those challenges define her. Ins...