How long is Helicopter String Quartet?

Helicopter String Quartet runs for 1h 21min, and was released in 1996.

Helicopter String Quartet

Name: Helicopter String Quartet
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1996
Duration: 81 min
Cast: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Irvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings, Garth Knox, Rohan de Saram

1996

1h 21min

Documentary

Music

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Overview

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.