Belly (2018)
Solo cello/ fixed electronics
Dur. 8 mins
MEDIA
HISTORY
First performance:
Amanda Gookin at National Sawdust, NYC
PRESS
“Sankaram unpacks and explores the discomfort in her own skin that she experienced from an early age by excavating the aggressions, both micro- and macro-, that have entered her orbit from youth to adulthood. The result is a vast collage of not-so-easy listening, followed by feelings of empathy…Gookin swarmed around sickly intervals…and lay into crunch tones that exploded into jabs and rebounded into shimmers. Structural references to the three medieval humors of blood (excitement), yellow bile (anger), and black bile (melancholy) gave the piece a visceral feel.”