''CDZA'', short for Collective Cadenza, creates musical video experiments featuring highly trained musical virtuosos, particularly from music schools in the New York City area. Following the success of "The History Of Lyrics That Aren't Lyrics", the official cdza

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channel was launched May 1, 2012. Releasing a new musical video experiment every other Tuesday cdza has been featured by

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, Matt McCorkle, and

Michael Thurber Michael Thurber is an American composer, songwriter, bassist and actor. He is a co-founder of CDZA, a YouTube music collective that performed at the YouTube Music Awards in 2013. Thurber has composed scores for theater productions such as ''Antony ...

. Currently, the group appears to be on hiatus, as their last video was posted October 30, 2014.

References

External links

CDZA's website

CDZA's YouTube channel
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