Helicopter String Quartet 1996
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One morning, the late Karlheinz Stockhausen awoke from a dream that told him to take to the sky. Stockhausen envisioned four helicopters swirling in the clouds, with each of a quartet’s members tucked inside his own chopper, communicating through headsets, stringing away in sync to the rotor-blade motors. He immediately set forth to make that dream a reality. In 1995, Dutch film director Scheffer followed Stockhausen in the days leading up to the premiere performance of his Helicopter String Quartet in Amsterdam. The resulting film offers a rare glimpse of Stockhausen as he patiently dictates every agonizingly detailed measure to the Arditti Quartet.
- Released: 1996-10-17
- Runtime: 81 minutes
- Genre: Documentary, Music
- Stars: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Irvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings, Garth Knox, Rohan de Saram
- Director: Frank Scheffer, Herman Verschuur, Harold Jalving, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Frank Scheffer
- Source: Layarstar
