Helicopter String Quartet (1996)
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.
Director: Frank Scheffer
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Karlheinz Stockhausen as Himself |
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Irvine Arditti as Self |
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Graeme Jennings as Self |
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Garth Knox as Self |
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Rohan de Saram as Self |
| Directing | Frank Scheffer | Director |
| Sound | Harold Jalving | Sound Designer |
| Writing | Karlheinz Stockhausen | Musical |
| Production | Frank Scheffer | Producer |
| Camera | Herman Verschuur | Camera Technician |
| Writing | Frank Scheffer | Writer |
| Production | Ton Van Der Lee | Producer |
| Camera | René van der Eijk | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Wouter Veldhuis | Sound |
| Camera | Roelf-Jan Wentholt | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Eddy de Cloe | Sound |
| Editing | Jan Wouter van Reijen | Editor |
| Camera | Joost van Gelder | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Otto Horsch | Sound |
