Peanut Jelly and Butter
Carolyn Bremer
About this work:
"Peanut Jelly and Butter" is a jaunty work steeped in postmodern trappings. The piece interweaves objectified notions of otherness with the encoded subjectivity of irony via frayed references to pop culture. It has a good beat.
"Peanut Jelly and Butter" is a jaunty work steeped in postmodern trappings. At its core is parody: not the edgy anger of satire, but the memory-laced tension between the old and the new. Juxtaposing new "high brow" music with familiar "low brow" music marks the differences between culturally-imposed genres and groupings while calling those boundaries into question. Parody also injects the listening experience with new layers of meaning: meaning dependent musical memories. This is meaning by association and metaphor which is uniquely created by each listener.
Year composed: 2004
Duration: 00:09:00
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice:Other Combinations, 2-5 players
Instrumentation: 1 Bass Clarinet, 1 Vibraphone, 1 Drum Set, 1 Violin, 1 Cello