The BQE

The BQE is a mixed-medium artistic exploration of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway by Sufjan Stevens. The project originally manifested in the form of a live show, performed on November 1–3, 2007. The show consisted of an original film, directed and written by Stevens, accompanied by an orchestra performing a live soundtrack. The album recording was made after the rehearsals for the show. It was recorded live during a one-day session in Legacy Studios' A509 orchestral suite with most of the group in the same large room together. A multimedia package of The BQE was released on October 20, 2009. The set consists of a CD of the show's soundtrack, a DVD of Brooklyn-Queen Expressway footage that accompanied the original performance, a 40-page booklet with liner notes and photos, and a stereoscopic 3D View-Master reel. There is also a limited-edition version that features the soundtrack on 180-gram vinyl and a 40-page BQE-themed comic book starring the show's hula-hooping wonder women, The Hooper Heroes. Regarding The BQE, Stevens said: I intended to create a non-personal, non-narrative piece. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BQE...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)