That Fatal Gift of Beauty, by Benjamin Kaplan

That Fatal Gift of Beauty

by Benjamin Kaplan

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1.	Opus I 05:36	buy track
2.	Opus II 04:24	buy track
3.	Opus III 03:18	buy track
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We live in the age of appropriation.

Of mashups and remixes.

Of taking what was and reframing, rethinking — remaking it — into what will be.

Worlds built on worlds. Echoes upon echoes. The past reimagined as future, where then is now, and old is suddenly new.

How far through time is there purpose in repurposing? Years? Decades? Centuries?

"That Fatal Gift of Beauty" reaches back 200 years to the work of a master composer and — at the hands of the inspired — recasts his greatest triumphs for a new age.

In December of 2013, artist Benjamin Kaplan gathered 10 people in a South St. Louis recording studio to attempt an impossible feat, to rethink, reframe, remix all of Beethoven’s nine symphonies by stacking the movements and refining that chaos into order. In this age of appropriation and mashups, this group of 10 recast the composer’s work for a new age, becoming a different kind of orchestra for a new age. Liberating the masterworks from the master.

The result is a collection of symphonic sound collages that sound familiar, yet entirely new. Surprising harmonies and rhythms were discovered lying dormant in these 200-year-old works.

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released September 1, 2015

Conceived and Orchestrated by Benjamin Kaplan

Mixed by
Heather Bennett
Marc Chechik
Julie Heller
Danny Hommes
Nicole Hudson
Benjamin Kaplan
Jason McEntire
Julie Sheehan
Scott Smith
Grover Stewart

Recorded by Jason McEntire at Sawhorse Studios, St. Louis, MO
Edited and Mastered by Benjamin Kaplan

Liner Notes by Rebecca Kinzie Bastian

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Benjamin Kaplan Saint Louis, Missouri

Benjamin Kaplan is a multi-disciplinary artist living in St. Louis and working globally.

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