Helicopter String Quartet

Name: Helicopter String Quartet
Director: Frank Scheffer
Released: 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

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.

Runtime: 81

Release date: 2005-01-01

<article> <figure> <img src="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/gz9nx21J2du76fT5gJFmPtlDpdN.jpg" title='Helicopter String Quartet' alt='Helicopter String Quartet'/> </figure> <h1>Helicopter String Quartet</h1> <p>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.</p> <details><summary>Runtime: 81</summary> <summary>Release date: 2005-01-01</summary></details> </article>