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.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Stars: 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)
Country: Netherlands
Language: English, Deutsch
Studio: Allegri Film
Runtime: 81 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Oct 17, 1996
IMDb: 5.3
