History of Violin (THE INSTRUMENTALS - Episode 7)

collectivecadenza is back with another 'The Instrumental" series in this 12-min, 44-song viral vid as they take us on a journey through some of the violin's greatest moments in history....

Justin Genrelake (My Love in 13 Genres)

Wow!  Justin Timberlake across 13 genres like only CDZA can...










In a tribute to JT, we present our third and final Impromptu Session. "My Love" in 13 genres in a minute.

Epic Key Changes | Opus No. 20

We love these guys!








A KEY CHANGE: The best weapon in making any song much more epic.

Starring:
Britney Coleman
Arielle Jacobs
Forest VanDyke
Michael Thurber
Eric Rivera, as epic whistler dude

*Note - All key changes are how they were transposed for the purposes in this video. The key changes are NOT how they are in the original songs.

Our Wedding Song | cdza Opus No. 18

Well this was interesting to watch. Elderly couples revisiting the songs they were married to years ago. 








For Valentine's Day, CDZA takes a trip to a Senior Living center to share the stories of four couples and perform the songs they were married to.

Very very special thanks to Whitney Bryant and Brookdale Senior Living -- The Hallmark Battery Park City, New York City.

Fresh Prince: Google Translated | cdza Opus No. 16

Lol.  Lost in translation... They had no idea why they did this, neither do we, but hey! it brought back memories.  Great tunage, as always, by CDZA!







In the geekiest experiment ever, CDZA co-founder Joe Sabia shows us what happens when we translate the lyrics of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air through every language in Google Translate (64 times), and then taking what remains and translating it BACK into English.

Featuring Jeremie Harris as Will Smith.

Technically speaking, all but the first verse were translated. The lyrics were translated from English to the world's most spoken language (Mandarin), to the second most (Spanish), to the third most, to the fourth most, ETC, putting all 64 languages in order by finding the demographic population size on every language on Wikipedia.

Fun facts:
The last translation we put it through was "Esperanto", because apparently, only 10,000 people speak it.
No one has an official language of "Latin", but we had to assume a lot of people are still able to speak it. So that was a bit ambiguous.
Proper Nouns never really changed. Neither did numbers, as you can tell in the last stanza, "7,8".
We have no idea why we did this.

History of Misheard Lyrics | Opus No. 13

Hahahaha... LOVE it!  This was great to watch.  We're sure you've all thought you were singing the right lyrics before...

Live performance of 70 years of famous misheard lyrics.






A couple of months ago we set off to create our most challenging "History" yet: a live-performed montage of favorite misheard lyrics through 70 years.

Featuring Ryan Melia and Loralee Gayer on Misheard Lyrical Activity
Michael is playing a bass from NS Design (http://www.thinkns.com)

Thanks to friends of cdza and kissthisguy.com for helping with research

NYC Phoneharmonic | cdza

The creative music video team cdza takes on some of the most inescapable sounds in our life.

cdza is at it again with another creative music video this time using everyday sounds we are familiar with - ring tones!







Opus No. 5 - NYC Phoneharmonic
A wondrous orchestral medley of the iconic ringtones belonging to cell phone companies.