The late Karlheinz Stockhausen spent a quarter of a century composing a 29-hour opera cycle called Licht. Each day of the week got its own opera. Here is a ’scene’ from Mittwoch (Wednesday) for “string quartet, 4 helicopters with pilots and 4 sound technicians, 4 television transmitters, 4 x 3 sound transmitters, auditorium with 4 columns of televisions and 4 columns of loudspeakers, sound projectionist with mixing console/ moderator (ad lib.)”
http://www.stockhausen.org/helicopter_intro.html
I’m sure the stop-government-funding-of-the-arts camp pull this clip out as exhibit A.
