They became frequent onstage collaborators as well as friends.
Throughout the evening the group was joined onstage by collaborators, both from the album and elsewhere.
Herndon was joined onstage by collaborators Mat Dryhurst and Brian Rogers, all three of them peering slack-jawed into their laptops for most of their thought-provoking performance.
Ronson will perform onstage with his collaborator on the album, the superproducer Jeff Bhasker, who will sing and play another rare occurrence and (we hope) with Andrew Wyatt, of the Swedish band Miike Snow, with whom Ronson composed some of the jazzier tunes on the album.
The continued live absence of Ed Simons, replaced onstage by visual collaborator Adam Smith, will only rile the DJ "performance" doubters arguing that you could stick a blond wig on a pen drive and have a Chemical Brothers gig in your downstairs toilet, but when they finish with the churchy, euphoric The Private Psychedelic Reel, they're pushing live music's most devotional buttons.
Not only is André Allen Anjos celebrating the one year anniversary of his solo album, Strangers, but he just rocked the desert gathering known as Coachella, where he was joined onstage by regular collaborator and friend Penguin Prison.
He appeared onstage during longtime collaborator Boi-1da's set and ran through a batch of singles, including "Jumpman," "Energy," "Back To Back," and his recent hit with DJ Khaled, "For Free".
But Mr. Horowitz said that in watching Fiasco's "Cymbeline": "I was very taken with the way they worked as collaborators onstage.
It was surely a sign of faith in Mr. Levine's judgment, and in the talents of his collaborators onstage, that a sizable audience assembled for Sunday's quirky concert and seemed to appreciate it throughout.
After he was introduced by Mr. Bloomberg, Mr. Cunningham described how rolls of the dice by his past collaborators onstage would determine the order of two sets of artistic elements in "Split Sides".
On a recent Friday evening, the hip-hop journalist Elliott Wilson had gathered Q-Tip and Jarobi White, two members of A Tribe Called Quest, along with the rapper Busta Rhymes and the producer Consequence, two recent Tribe collaborators, onstage at Webster Hall, a club in the East Village.
