Helicopter String Quartet

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

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

Genre: Documentary, Music

Studio: Allegri Film

Director: Frank Scheffer

Cast: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Irvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings, Garth Knox, Rohan de Saram

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

Runtime: 81 minutes

Release: Oct 17, 1996

IMDb: 5.70/10 by 3 users

Popularity: 1

Country: Netherlands

Language: English, Deutsch