Helicopter String Quartet (movie)
Helikopter Streichquartett- User score: 5.7
- Production country: Netherlands
- Producer: Frank Scheffer
- Production companies: Allegri Film
- Genre: Documentary, Music
- Release date: 10/17/1996
- Run time: 81 min.
Movie description
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.
