Watch Helicopter String Quartet (1996) Online

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. Read More

Watch Helicopter String Quartet online. Featuring Karlheinz Stockhausen and Irvine Arditti, Helicopter String Quartet is classified as Documentary and Music genre movie with an average rating across the web of 5.7. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Netherlands and was released on 1996. Helicopter String Quartet was directed by Frank Scheffer,Ton Van Der Lee. Read Less