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"It's not a musical because the music isn't being used to forward the narrative of the story, and it's all diegetic music," AdjmiButler and Adjmi have been collaborating on the play since 2014, exchanging snippets of the play and pieces of songs as they built their work together. But because it isn't a musical, we don't get fully-fledged musical numbers or even all of the songs in their entirety.
"This is the era where sound is the composition," he adds. "You're composing in sound, you're composing in electrons etched onto a tape. That's your oil paint. How those electrons come out of the speakers is the composition more than notes on the page.