The Brooklyn Paper’s Go Brooklyn section has a good interview with the very talented indie performer and composer Sufijan Stevens, who lives in Kensington. He created a work called “THE BQE” for the Next Wave Festival at BAM, which premiers Thursday night. If anyone has an extra ticket and would like to sell it to me please let me know. I’d very much like to hear/see this. I LOVE Stevens’s album, Illinoise.

Sufjan Stevens, the 32-year-old, Kensington-based indie pop star with seven albums and a slew of guest appearances and collaborations to his credit, found great inspiration in the 11.6-mile stretch of road. He was so moved by the pavement that he penned a half-hour-long music-and-video composition entitled “The BQE” that will have its world premiere with a three-night run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Nov. 1.

Although he calls Brooklyn home, Stevens — who isn’t quite a mainstream superstar, but has been featured extensively in independent films, on television and in magazines like Topic and McSweeney’s — is a rare on-stage sight in the borough, so GO Brooklyn excitedly checked in with him to see what the driving force behind his new project was.