Helicopter String Quartet
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The Ride of the Grasshoppers
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Helikopter-Streichquartett to feature in London 2012 Festival
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Helikopter-Streichquartett to feature in London 2012 Festival
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Stockhausen's helicopter extravaganza finally gets a UK outing -- in Birmingham. So we're talking hideous noise, filthy pollution, disorientated human beings making incomprehensible sounds -- but that's enough about Birmingham.
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From: Land of damp and drizzle
It's aleatoric or avante-garde music (commonly referred to by those who have to study it as alimentary music). It's supposed to sound like that, to be new and edgy or something. Blame John Cage (the 4'33" guy).
And yes, it is bloody awful.
And yes, it is bloody awful.

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From: In the air with luck
Did I hear they were practicing for the Olympics!! music relayed with a down link whilst helicopters overhead 
Not April 1st yet is it?
No wonder the Olympics are costing so much, or it is a government incentive for helio pilots in the South who are hard hit by all the restrictions.

Not April 1st yet is it?
No wonder the Olympics are costing so much, or it is a government incentive for helio pilots in the South who are hard hit by all the restrictions.










