Movie: Helicopter String Quartet

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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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    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

    1996-10-17

  • Average

    5.7

  • Rating:

    2.9 starts
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