On Sunday 18 January 2009 14:22:02 Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 01:00:06PM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> > Earlier today in Rome there was a performance of > > Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (the third ever > > worldwide) in which the four members of a string > > quartet perform in as many helicopter hovering > > above the concert hall, with the resulting music > > being reproduced for the audience inside. > > > > I've not seen any engineering reports on it so far, > > but it must have been a nice challenge as well. > wow. somebody finally did it? i know there have been at least two > attempts before, and both were cancelled as the expenses were > skyrocketing :) The first was at the opening of the HANGAR-7 in Salzburg. There's a documentary about it: http://www.bfmi.at/stockhausen.htm I only found one image of the show in high quality: http://www.redbull-photofiles.com/Photofiles/PhotofilesModule/ShowSubsectionImages?subsectionID=1109331030995-1940036278 (picture 220803H703 ) > <flamebait>while i do have a soft spot for the old geezer from sirius, i > think the money would have been better spent on a whole bunch of other > works less heavy on artistic hubris and a bit better equipped in the > taste department.</flamebait> I understand why they do it on time, but why repeat it? Flo -- Machines can do the work, so people have time to think. public key 6C002249 x-hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
