This piece of music is a great example of how the place in which the music is played can make it a masterpiece. Helicopter String Quartet, by a German composer named Karlheinz Stockhausen, "involves a string quartet, four helicopters with pilots, as well as audio and video equipment and technicians." - taken from wikipedia. The audio and visual technicians are needed so that the performers can see and hear each other as they play from different helicopters. According to Stockhausen, the idea came to him in a dream, in which "he was flying above four helicopters, each carrying a member of a string quartet; he could see into and through the transparent helicopters" - taken from wikipedia. The piece is composed so that the tremolo notes played by the performers blend with the sound of the rotors to make the rotors sound musical. The microphones in each helicopter are placed so that the quartet sounds slightly louder than the rotors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13D1YY_BvWU&feature=player_detailpage
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