Sufjan Stevens' upcoming audio-visual epic "The BQE"

So, it's a tragedy?

No one will get to the show on time.

ppl are excited about this

are they still excited?

and is there tickets?

Last time I was at the BAM site, it said "sold out."

NO we're releasing seats right now!

ppl are still very excited

my dept just released some seats for general sale for tonight, so if you're lookin, u should call now! 718 636 4100, press 1

(even if web site says sold out)

Good to see someone trying to take a place alongside United States Live.

Sur, this was like a month ago when I checked. I was researching something unrelated for work -- prob. something about Mark Morris.

http://gothamist.com/2007/10/28/opinionist_blac.php

gotcha xp

they're rehearsing downstairs now... some of em are wearing butterfly wings

a good sign ... always.

meh, i'm not really motivated.

me either.

Pitchfork review:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/46827-photos-world-premiere-of-sufjan-stevens-bqe-brooklyn-ny-110107

good crowd reactions

Who actually likes this fella? I don't think I've ever met anybody into him.

mac users

ladies love sufjan ... at least, my wife does. and several female friends.
i don't think he's awful, i enjoy some songs of his. but i find the extra-musical stuff that surrounds him to be a little bit unbearable.

Reminds me of a 1996 review in the NY Times of Combustible Edison playing at Windows on the World, and how the band couldn't quite cut it as a lounge band in an authentic lounge setting. Same way, the burden here is to play in a hall where, as a composer and arranger, he can't just allude to Glass and the like but has to hold his own in comparison to them.

slocki otmfm

see also: undergrads

ppl are lined up downstairs for the show tonight... lots of young and hip. cute guys

see also: undergrads

-- impudent harlot, Friday, November 2, 2007 7:47 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i resent this. we don't all drink starbucks and watch garden state while listening to this. it's only about 90% of us

So, when does "Minnesota" arrive then?

This whole thing sounds really embarrassing. Sufjan is a kitten of a man born in a cornfield, and he's triyng to take on thurrr bright lights big city, and the ghosts of genius composers past. It seems like it's much too big for both his upbringing and his musical ability.

But I'm sure the 35 year old Park Slope crowd from Illinois and Nebraska will lurrrrrrrrv it. It's basically tailor made for them.

http://cms.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/40571.IMG_6136.JPG

DOMO ARIGATO MR ROBOTO

i think he's been very humble about the whole thing though.

This one was a BAM commission, and it makes sense for artists to use commissions to push their boundaries, whether or not they succeed at the work created.

right. i think the story goes he didn't even know what commission meant.

i mean, you'd be kind of a fool to turn it down.

Got free tickets to the opening. Never a big Surfin Stevens, but I had a fine time. No surprises in "BQE," save one little orchestral freakout section. The orchesta/screen split was done well, and the last half of the video was really great (and during the 2nd half, I thought some of the video stuff was A++++ would zone out to again).

All in all, I can't imagine "BQE" being worth price of admission unless you're a big fan. Felt like a 30-minute string of instrumentals from his album. That said, I guess he's got his style down enough where his sound is distinct. Surprisingly good job w/ the video, though.

http://cdn.stereogum.com/img/album_covers/sufjan_bqe.jpg

On July 21, 2009 it was announced that the multimedia package would be released on October 20, 2009. It will consist of a CD of the show's soundtrack, a DVD of Brooklyn-Queen Expressway footage that accompanied the original performance (not a film of the performance itself), a 40-page booklet with liner notes and photos, and a stereoscopic 3D View-Master reel. There will also be 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.

anyways The BQE has leaked...

aghast at the 'urban-vibrant' text design

This guy has 48 states left to go.

This guy

Next up should be Alaska (All Good Naysayers, Join The Alaska Independence Party; A Short Reprise for Bristol Palin, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons)

This guy

seriously. i find his shit completely unlistenable.

Really? I was kidding, actually. I like his discs.

Actually I don't hate SS, bbbut a 40-page BQE-themed comic book starring the show's hula hooping wonder women, the Hooper Heroes

i have no desire to even listen to this. is this worth playing?

i have no desire to even listen to this.

But apparently you have a desire to keep us posted as to its leak status.