Name: Helicopter String Quartet
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 17 Oct 1996
Rating: 5.70
Cast: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Irvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings, Garth Knox, Rohan de Saram

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.

Year 1996

Studio Allegri Film

Director Frank Scheffer

Crew Frank Scheffer (Director), Herman Verschuur (Camera Technician), Harold Jalving (Sound Designer), Karlheinz Stockhausen (Musical), Frank Scheffer (Producer), Frank Scheffer (Writer)

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Language English, Deutsch