Aeromusic
One of ANALOG's strongest benefactors flew in to ARTSaha! this year on a private plane, and when I asked if we could incorporate the pilot and the plane into this year's festival, I must admit I was a bit surprised at how alien the idea seemed to her. Surely, everyone knows that aerial music is a standard genre now, a decade after Stockhausen's Helikopter String Quartet.
It's downright commonplace to put musicians into aeromobiles for remote performances these days! Why just the other day, the entire New York Philharmonic squeezed into a hot air balloon to perform Bruckner 7. We're aiming for a rocket or space shuttle, but if we have to start with our sponsor's Cessna, that'll be ok. You can start helping ARTSaha! 2006 by clicking through our Google ads, but if you happen to know anyone who owns a Class III rocket (or four), shoot us an e-mail.
Just one quick note on the Stockhausen: I love the guy, warts and all. And in this case, it's that same-old issue of his inflexibility of vision. He started his own publishing company because he simply couldn't tolerate scores that didn't appear exactly as he pictured them, and here too, his concept for the piece moves quickly into the realm of masochism when he instructs that the staging include an initial introduction of the performers by a moderator who then must describe "the technical aspects of the forthcoming performance".
Putting performers into helicopters is gag enough, dude. The audience is gonna have plenty to chew on without a spec sheet.
It's downright commonplace to put musicians into aeromobiles for remote performances these days! Why just the other day, the entire New York Philharmonic squeezed into a hot air balloon to perform Bruckner 7. We're aiming for a rocket or space shuttle, but if we have to start with our sponsor's Cessna, that'll be ok. You can start helping ARTSaha! 2006 by clicking through our Google ads, but if you happen to know anyone who owns a Class III rocket (or four), shoot us an e-mail.
Just one quick note on the Stockhausen: I love the guy, warts and all. And in this case, it's that same-old issue of his inflexibility of vision. He started his own publishing company because he simply couldn't tolerate scores that didn't appear exactly as he pictured them, and here too, his concept for the piece moves quickly into the realm of masochism when he instructs that the staging include an initial introduction of the performers by a moderator who then must describe "the technical aspects of the forthcoming performance".
Putting performers into helicopters is gag enough, dude. The audience is gonna have plenty to chew on without a spec sheet.
Labels: jodru, Karlheinz Stockhausen
posted by jodru at 07:43
3 Comments:
i chewed on the idea of attempting to execute the helicopter quartet - got stomped at the flying machine part. if you can find us 4 helicopter, i can find the quartet that's crazy enough to do this...
A great idea...just tell me when and where. One question though-who is on the receiving end of the music? Maybe you could pipe it through a loudspeaker while you fly over the city...
That's what Stockhausen did. The performance was beamed back to the concert hall and a plaza outside of it; so, you could hear the performance in a concert setting or outdoors with the ability to actually see the hovering choppers.
Clearly, the more economical solution is to raise the audience aloft with the musicians.
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