Helicopter String Quartet (1996)
Helikopter Streichquartett
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.
- Date of release
- 1996-10-17
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Director
- Frank Scheffer
Casting
- Karlheinz Stockhausen — Himself
- Irvine Arditti — Self
- Graeme Jennings — Self
- Garth Knox — Self
- Rohan de Saram — Self
Interesting facts
Helicopter String Quartet is a 78-minute 1996 Dutch English- and German-language independent underground experimental documentary art film directed by Frank Scheffer.
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