Helicopter String Quartet

Name: Helicopter String Quartet
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1996-10-17
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 6

★ 6,0 /10 (4 Votes)

1996 DE 81 min

Overview

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.

Release date

17/10/1996

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