Continuing to cast a very long shadow

In this month's Artforum online, Robin Maconie, Morton Subotnick, and Björk offer further tributes to the composer, who died in December.  (The print edition includes comments from Maryanne Amacher, Irvine Arditti and Pierre-Laurent Aimard.)

[Above: Dienstag aus LICHT (Tuesday from LIGHT) (1977/87-91), at the Leipzig Opera House in 1993. Photo by Stefan Müller]

Comments

[Lisa Hirsch]

I'm confused - Stockhausen died in December, not May. Am I insanely misreading something?

[Bruce Hodges]

Yikes, I must be needing more coffee. You're a gem, Lisa--and far from insane. (Post edited.)

[emily xyz]

Bruce, did I tell you that Virgil is "directing" (can't think how else to describe it) a version of Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet w/ the University of Michigan's Digital Music Ensemble next week? The D/M/E is a group of Michigan undergrads. They're doing the piece in surround w/ 4 electric guitars and -- I love this -- toy helicopters! AND generating real-time visuals that affect/are affected by the music, including a camera inside one of the toy helicopters. It's only going to run abt 15 minutes, but it's gonna be a miniature tech-fest! I remember you were the first person who ever told me about this piece, so thank you for that. I wish you could be here to see this -- but Virgil's going to post a video of it, so I'll let you know where.

[Bruce Hodges]

Emily, this sounds fantastic, and at first glance, a great way to perform the piece without incurring the expense of four full-size helicopters. Sorry I won't be there! But absolutely let me know when the video is up and I'll post the link here.

[emily xyz]

Yes, there was a bit of a crisis when 2 of the 4 helicopter pilots quit on Tuesday night! Fortunately VM was able to replace them pretty easily. Those little helicopters are not easy to fly. Show is tomorrow night, I think it's going to be very cool!