Helicopter String Quartet Backdrop

Helicopter String Quartet

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.

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Directors

> Frank Scheffer (Director)
> René van der Eijk (Director of Photography)
> Roelf-Jan Wentholt (Director of Photography)
> Joost van Gelder (Director of Photography)

Writers

> Karlheinz Stockhausen (Musical)
> Frank Scheffer (Writer)