Film · Documentary, Music
Helicopter String Quartet (1996)
★ 6.0 · 4 votes1 h 21 minDocumentary, Music1996
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.
- Director
- Frank Scheffer
- Writers
- Karlheinz Stockhausen, Frank Scheffer
- Country
- Netherlands
- Language
- German
- Release date
- October 17, 1996
- Original title
- Helikopter Streichquartett
Cast
Karlheinz StockhausenHimself- Irvine ArdittiSelf
- Graeme JenningsSelf
- Garth KnoxSelf
- Rohan de SaramSelf
