Helicopter String Quartet
Helicopter String Quartet
A Documentary and Music film released in 1996, Helicopter String Quartet runs 1h 21m and comes from Netherlands. Soap2Day lists it with Frank Scheffer directing and Karlheinz Stockhausen and Irvine Arditti in the cast. It holds 6/10 from 4 votes. 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.
- Genre: Documentary, Music
- Country: Netherlands
- Director: Frank Scheffer
- Cast: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Irvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings, Garth Knox, Rohan de Saram
