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 tricky part of the heli quartet is that not only do you need 4 bi-directional wireless audio links (the quality of which is pretty secondary, given the available s/n inside a helicopter - i guess you could do it with standard uhf audio gear and pimped antennae), but you also need 4 very high quality video links for the musicians to be shown on screens in the auditorium. and i would imagine a helicopter cockpit to be a quite emr-unfriendly environment, and the available power to be rather noisy... even greater than the engineering challenge will be the challenge of getting anybody to pay for that bs^H^Hthe realisation of such a visionary piece of art. which seems to have succeeded :) <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> jörn _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev