Presented by music collective thingNY, Sickbed is a musical story by Gelsey Bell that investigates the long evolutionary history of life on Earth, tracing an epic story of origins, mass extinctions, and renewal from the sickbed of a flare-up. Events such as the creation of the moon, the emergence of life, the journey of plants and then animals onto terra firma, and previous mass extinction events are layered onto a meditation for and of human engagement with chronic pain - all wrapped in the lush timbres of cello, Celtic harp, synthesizers, pump organ, accordion, bells, and percussion.