Meet Adora

The teasers continue with a look at Adora. Follow the link to catch a peek..

Meet Adora

What do you think of her? Official trailer coming soon.

Meet Pablo

The music ball is rolling again! Here's a peek at the first teaser for the latest project I've been working on, a lovely short stop-motion film called Dacryphilia. What's it about you ask? Well..

Pablo loves to cry. Adora loves a man who cries. They are perfect for each other until the day Pablo runs out of tears. Their mission leads them on a destructive path that asks them to pay the highest price for their desires.

Meet Pablo

Update on Flower Cascade

Celestial Garden

Over the summer I wrote a track to be featured on a Tetris-like game called "Flower Cascade." 

This is the exhibit that Flower Cascade was a part of:

http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/

It was shown for one weekend at the Phoenix Art Museum. Initially it was turned down for the Android app store, but work has continued on it while the team waits. I will let you know when the game is finally released!

Onwards to summer!

Just coming back from a nice relaxing weekend after the hustle and bustle of graduation. As the weather gets warmer and memorial day is approaching I figured today I'd put up an animation created last summer, which I did music for, about a nice day at a bbq ;)

http://vimeo.com/48038441

It's titled "Knockout Cookout"

Animtion By Chris Airgood
Music By Zha

Graduate with a Bachelor's in Music!

I, Zhaniece Springer, (Zha) am now a proud graduate of the University of the Arts!

Today I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in music, majoring in composition and minoring in music education. It was definitely a struggle and I couldn't have made it without all the love and support around me every day of my life.

A special shoutout to my wonderful collaborator and boyfriend Chris Airgood, an animation major I've done a lot of work with who also graduated with me today. His work ethic is a wonderful inspiration for me to keep on going everyday. I think we make an awesome team :)

Here's to all the exciting new music now coming out as I work on my professional career! If you like what I'm doing, please just let me know you're out there watching and or listening to it. Comment, like, even dislike, but most of all it's nice to know there's an audience out there to start off with. (Maybe I'll even start doing requests at some point)

I'm sure many people have noticed there's a new Facebook page I've set up to separate the music from regular personal Facebook. It's called "Music a la Zha" you may have gotten there from here. In either case the music will be put up somehow. So please enjoy the progression from things I've worked on throughout my four years here leading up to some cool and exciting new stuff!

Graduation is Comin' Round

Recital went fantastically! I'm so grateful and happy to everyone that was able to come out and watch in person as well as online :)

The link for anyone who still hasn't seen it. http://www.livestream.com/caplantheatre/video?clipId=pla_8ac74491-a9d3-4742-8b84-62ec832d0251&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb


Graduation is in a few days now. While waiting, I finally got to relax and see my family for a bit. Recently got the audio from the show so I'll putting all of that up in time. Getting soundcloud, blog, and the like updated.

I appreciate all the support I get, so please keep it on coming. From here on out I hope you all get excited with all the stuff I'm about the put up.

Senior Recital Prep!

Okay finally getting to serious business with recital preparation. I'm really excited :D Met with drummer the other day, and met with the wonderful pianist Kye Sun Kim the day after that.

It's so wonderful working with real people, and such talented artists at that. One of the best things is getting immediate feedback. Computers don't talk back ;) And I like a little talk back every now and then. Also pushing myself to really perform again.

Yes, music isn't meant to stay within the boundaries of your bedroom. It isn't nearly as fun then. So I can't wait for the weeks to progress as I meet up with more people and bring this dream to fruition. Countdown to senior recital starts now!

BTW senior recital is April 27th! Be there :D