by SHANE SINNOTT

Moving on, the maddeningly prolific Sufjan Stevens, who became pretty heavily interested in the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (that’s the I-278 to dorks), premiered “The BQE” a couple weeks ago. The project consists of 16mm and Super-8 films by Stevens, and an accompanying half-hour orchestral performance led by, yes, Stevens. You can get a good sense of what went on by downloading Part 3 and Part 6 of the musical piece, at tinyurl.com/ywuqu2 and tinyurl.com/2ggttt, respectively.

And finally, Industry Canada just released the results of a study they commissioned on the impact of file-sharing on the purchase of music, which you can read here: tinyurl.com/yqpz4v. The authors state that, based on a survey of 2,000 Canadians, they found “a strong positive relationship between P2P file-sharing and CD purchasing… file-sharing increases CD purchases.” If you want to get technical, among those surveyed, each song downloaded per month translated into an extra .44 CDs purchased per year. If the results of those 2,000 surveyed are projected to the entire population, you get this nugget: “The analysis of the entire Canadian population does not uncover either a positive or negative relationship between the number of files downloaded from P2P networks and CDs purchased.” In short, the effect of file-sharing on music buying is bupkis.