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The Bqe (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway)

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The Bqe (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway)

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Sufjan Stevens premiered The BQE, a film and musical suite exploring New York Citys infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, at the Brooklyn Academy of Musics Next Wave Festival in November 2007. The critically applauded performance featured 36 performers including a band, a wind and brass ensemble, string players, a horn section, projected film footage of the expressway and five hula hoopers. Entire package features the CD soundtrack, the DVD of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway film footage, a 40-page booklet with extensive liner notes & photographs and an accompanying stereoscopic 3-D Viewmaster reel. The concept behind The BQE is based largely on the history of New Yorks Brooklyn-Queens Expressway 12.7 miles of urban roadway built between 1939 and 1964 by master urban planner Robert Moses. The Viewmaster, unveiled at the 1939 NYC Worlds Fair (the Worlds Fair being part of the motivation for the construction of the BQE, funnelling New Yorkers to and from Flushing, Queens), was intended to promote 3-D panoramic illusions of the American landscape and serve as advertising for various tourist destinations and motivation for American drivers. The Hooper Heroes comic book, written by Stevens and drawn, coloured and inked by collaborator Stephen Halker, follows three extra-terrestrial superhero sisters who use hula-hoops to combat the Messiah of Civic Projects, Captain Moses. Tracklisting: Prelude On The Esplanade Introductory Fanfare For The Hooper Heroes Movement 1 - In The Countenance Of Kinds Movement 2 - Sleeping Invader Interlude - Dream Sequence In Subi Circumnavigation Movement 3 - Linear Tableau Eiyh Intersecting Surprise Movement 4 - Traffic Shock Movement 5 - Self-Organising Emergent Patterns Interlude 2 - Subi Power Waltz Interlude 3 - Invisible Accidents Movement 6 - Isorhythmic Night Dance With Interchanges Movement 7 (Finale) - The Emperor Of Centrifuge Postlude - Critical Mass
Product details
Release Date:
2009-10-23
Publication Date:
2009-09-10
Publisher:
Asthmatic Kitty / Cargo
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
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