Stockhausen's Helikopter string quartet

OMG! Have your heard this piece?!:

1992/93 HELIKOPTER-STREICHQUARTETT / [ca. 31']
HELICOPTER STRING QUARTET (3rd scene of WEDNESDAY from LIGHT)
for string quartet / 4 helicopters with pilots and 4 sound technicians /4
television transmitters, 4 x 3 sound transmitters /auditorium with 4 columns
of televisions and 4 columns of loudspeakers /sound projectionist with
mixing console / moderator (ad lib.)
(80 bound pages, with the 18 pages of the performance score and the 16 pages
of the graphic score in colour, 64 colour photographs, cover in colour)
Recipient of the 2001 German Music Publishers Society Award

The guy is completely bonkers- but I love it!!!!!

Dante

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theres a short video from a recent performance on this page:

http://www.bernardp.dsl.pipex.com/Mittwoch.html

3. Helikopter-Streichquartett (1993) for string quartet and four
helicopters.

A string quartet is presented to the audience, before leaving for the four
helicopters waiting outside. The helicopter blades begin to turn, and take
off; each containing a string player. A sophisticated system of video and
sound equipment transmits the performance back to a mixing desk in the hall
for the audience, via a multichannel sound system with the 4 performers made
visible on video monitors, The quartet are seen to be playing completely
synchronously as they make their ascent. The sounds of the helicopters are
mixed with the string quartet for the listeners as the helicopters fly above
the city. The three melodies of Licht are heard as sharply accented notes
rotated from one player to the next, during the constant glissandi. The
tremolando style of playing blends with the noise of the helicopter blades.
Finally a slow descent brings the musicians back to earth, and they re-enter
the concert-hall for the applause.

Dante Rosati wrote:
> OMG! Have your heard this piece?!:

I heard it on the radio once. I've never had the full, live experience.

Graham

http://www.stockhausen.org/helicopter_intro.html

I even saw it danced to and the dance was amazing. If fact one of the greatest
dances i have seen in my life. The music holds a tension throught out, at least
did in the context of with dance, but some somehow didn't felt compaled to go
out and get it. this EP selection is cheap BTW

Dante Rosati wrote:

> OMG! Have your heard this piece?!:
>
> 1992/93 HELIKOPTER-STREICHQUARTETT / [ca. 31']
> HELICOPTER STRING QUARTET (3rd scene of WEDNESDAY from LIGHT)
> for string quartet / 4 helicopters with pilots and 4 sound technicians /4
> television transmitters, 4 x 3 sound transmitters /auditorium with 4 columns
> of televisions and 4 columns of loudspeakers /sound projectionist with
> mixing console / moderator (ad lib.)
> (80 bound pages, with the 18 pages of the performance score and the 16 pages
> of the graphic score in colour, 64 colour photographs, cover in colour)
> Recipient of the 2001 German Music Publishers Society Award
>
> The guy is completely bonkers- but I love it!!!!!
>
> Dante
>
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--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Dante Rosati" <dante@i...> wrote:

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>
> http://www.stockhausen.org/helicopter_intro.html

***I kinda wonder whether this works, outside of the obvious
publicity factor.

I didn't like the sound of the helicopter/string mix, at least in the
short excerpt I heard... not as nice as his carefully constructed
electronic music...

Maybe ya had to be there...

J. Pehrson

> OMG! Have your heard this piece?!:

Somebody posted to the tuning list about it back in the day.
You like it? Sounds more like acrobatics than music to me,
though I haven't "heard" it.

-Carl

> http://www.stockhausen.org/helicopter_intro.html

Ok, I suppose it isn't so bad.

-Carl

I just cant believe the guy thought it up (ok it came to him a dream, but
thats still pretty cool). I've listened to 34' recording (through
headphones) and find it quite fascinating, both aurally and conceptually.
Right now I'm living in a sonic world of Xenakis (my main man) and
Stockhausen (almost came to the conclusion he was a poseur, now liking him
better, may end up thinking "that nut is a genius"), so my head is pretty
out there.

Dante

> -----Original Message-----
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> Ok, I suppose it isn't so bad.
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> -Carl
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he says he dreams all his music, but i doubt it. He 'dreamt' Stimmung after
seeing a La Monte Young performance

Dante Rosati wrote:

> I just cant believe the guy thought it up (ok it came to him a dream, but
> thats still pretty cool). I've listened to 34' recording (through
> headphones) and find it quite fascinating, both aurally and conceptually.
> Right now I'm living in a sonic world of Xenakis (my main man) and
> Stockhausen (almost came to the conclusion he was a poseur, now liking him
> better, may end up thinking "that nut is a genius"), so my head is pretty
> out there.
>
> Dante
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Carl Lumma [mailto:clumma@...]
> > Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 4:00 PM
> > To: metatuning@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [metatuning] Re: Stockhausen's Helikopter string quartet
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> > > http://www.stockhausen.org/helicopter_intro.html
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> > -Carl
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The mp3at stockhausen.org worked pretty good for me.

I was at USC when he brought a group there to perform scenes from Donnerstag aus Licht--Thursday From Light. My two cents are that it was so good, it was almost unbearable! The musicality and the profundity coming from the stage were...sort of like that.

kraig grady <kraiggrady@...> wrote:
he says he dreams all his music, but i doubt it. He 'dreamt' Stimmung after
seeing a La Monte Young performance

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When was this? and can't believe i missed it!

Pete McRae wrote:

> The mp3at stockhausen.org worked pretty good for me.
>
> I was at USC when he brought a group there to perform scenes from Donnerstag aus Licht--Thursday From Light. My two cents are that it was so good, it was almost unbearable! The musicality and the profundity coming from the stage were...sort of like that.
>

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North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
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The Wandering Medicine Show
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kraig grady <kraiggrady@...> wrote:
<<When was this? and can't believe i missed it!>>

It was around '83-84, I think. The box set of LP's says 1983 on it, and remember seeing a prominent article in Time (?) Magazine about the premier of the whole production, but that may have been in Europe, unless it made it to New York, as well. I seem to remember the weather being dark and cold, so winter '84??? (I almost missed it myself, it was like one of those academia things you have to watch the corkboards in the school halls and/or the papers really carefully not to miss) The next day, I "punished" myself for being late (!) to the concert by forking over about $50 bucks for the box set and skipping a bill that month. But hearing them do it live was truly astonishing, practically unrivalled by anything I've seen or heard, from anywhere in the world. A true Master...IMHO...

I can't find the album right now, but I saw an IRCAM ensemble there, too, about the same time, and they were up to some wonderful, scary business. Even so, Stockhausen had it up _at least_ another notch in terms of cohesion and power and beautiful disorienting sounds.

They didn't look too happy about it, either, as if he might have been tyrannizing the group, but they played that music like they were born to it! Well, I guess his kid the trumpeter was. He was amazing.

kraig grady <kraiggrady@...> wrote:
When was this? and can't believe i missed it!

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