Helicopter String Quartet
5.7
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1996-10-17
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Documentary
Music
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.
Featured Crew
| Frank Scheffer | Director |
| Harold Jalving | Sound Designer |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen | Musical |
| Frank Scheffer | Producer |
| Herman Verschuur | Camera Technician |
| Frank Scheffer | Writer |
| Ton Van Der Lee | Producer |
| René van der Eijk | Director of Photography |
| Wouter Veldhuis | Sound |
| Roelf-Jan Wentholt | Director of Photography |
