Helicopter String Quartet
Documentary
Music

Helicopter String Quartet

5.7
81 min
1996
Frank Scheffer

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.

Top Cast

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Himself

Irvine Arditti

Irvine Arditti

Self

Graeme Jennings

Graeme Jennings

Self

Garth Knox

Garth Knox

Self

Rohan de Saram

Rohan de Saram

Self

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