Helicopter String Quartet

Running 1h 21m and made in Netherlands, Helicopter String Quartet (1996) is a Documentary and Music film in the 123movies catalog. The cast includes Karlheinz Stockhausen and Irvine Arditti; Frank Scheffer directs. 4 votes put it at 6/10. 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.