Ilsar performs with long-time musical collaborators Daniel Pliner (synths) and Josh Ahearn (electric bass) as the Sticks and their debut single, World Maps, is funky and weird, with references to vintage video game music.
The "peerlessly prolific" author works with a team of collaborators on his novels, which span thrillers, romance and young adult fantasy.
Daldry has clearly found his ideal collaborators, too: Finn; screenwriter (and playwright) Lee Hall; and cinematographer Brian Tufano, the British veteran responsible for Shallow Grave, Trainspotting and East is East.
Then again, it may not technically be a sample: James admitted that he doesn't know "what it ended up being in the end", and instead of using the original recording, West's collaborators may have re-recorded the piano part.
This "Kuznets Curve" had been accepted by most parts of the economics profession until Piketty and his collaborators produced the evidence that it is false.
In return, it should be said, he demanded the same level of fastidious professionalism from collaborators, and a hallmark of his work is the outstanding quality of his fellow workers.
He went on to become an award-winning dancer and choreographer, and his collaborators have included Juliette Binoche, Hanif Kureishi, Anish Kapoor and Sylvie Guillem.
With Picasso, Stravinsky, Nijinsky, Cocteau among those collaborators, it's not surprising that Ballets Russes has since become a cultural legend.
The actor Simon Russell Beale, one of Mendes's closest collaborators, having played Iago and Ariel for him, recounts one of the rehearsals for the Tempest at the RSC some years ago.
The first weekend's programmes explore Britten's relationship with earlier British composers, including Purcell and Dowland, while the second remembers his musical friends and collaborators, including WH Auden, Aaron Copland and Mstislav Rostropovich.
They have made life-long friendships, met collaborators, and made better work afterwards because of it.
