octet

The quartet are actually an octet, if their AI counterparts are to be counted – an inventive exercise in transmedia storytelling to match their forward-thinking pop sound.

An octet of guest artists improvises in certain passages embedded within the score but also plays written-out music with the rest of the orchestra.

Aespa, the K-pop girl group, frequently perform alongside their digital avatars — the quartet is meant to be viewed as an octet with digital twins.

So just what did the octet of programs provide for those in attendance?

For the flashing lights, booming electronics and pitch-bending vocal octet of a slew of premieres.