Sick Din

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oOoOO, Adventure, Braider and Sick Din at Metro Gallery

Photos by Valerie Paulsgrove »On Saturday, May 25th, oOoOO, Adventure, Braider and Sick Din performed at Baltimore's Metro Gallery.
- Impose Magazine - Photos by Valerie Paulsgrove

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oOoOO, Adventure, Braider and Sick Din at Metro Gallery

Photos by Valerie Paulsgrove »On Saturday, May 25th, oOoOO, Adventure, Braider and Sick Din performed at Baltimore's Metro Gallery.
- Impose Magazine - Photos by Valerie Paulsgrove

Scene and Heard

oOoOO, Adventure, Braider and Sick Din at Metro Gallery

Photos by Valerie Paulsgrove »On Saturday, May 25th, oOoOO, Adventure, Braider and Sick Din performed at Baltimore's Metro Gallery.
- Impose Magazine, Photos by Valerie Paulsgrove

Scene and Heard

oOoOO, Adventure, Braider and Sick Din at Metro Gallery

Photos by Valerie Paulsgrove »On Saturday, May 25th, oOoOO, Adventure, Braider and Sick Din performed at Baltimore's Metro Gallery.
- Impose Magazine, Photos by Valerie Paulsgrove

Scene and Heard

oOoOO, Adventure, Braider and Sick Din at Metro Gallery

Photos by Valerie Paulsgrove »On Saturday, May 25th, oOoOO, Adventure, Braider and Sick Din performed at Baltimore's Metro Gallery.
- Impose Magazine, Photos by Valerie Paulsgrove

Scene and Heard

oOoOO, Adventure, Braider and Sick Din at Metro Gallery

Photos by Valerie Paulsgrove »On Saturday, May 25th, oOoOO, Adventure, Braider and Sick Din performed at Baltimore's Metro Gallery.
- Impose Magazine, Photos by Valerie Paulsgrove

Sister psych-pop group Prince Rama brought its apocalyptic dance party to Manhattan’s Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday night, transforming the venue into an interstellar rave space. The group was preceded by Eric Copeland of the iconic Brooklyn noise band Black Dice and Sick Din (Bethany Dinsick). All photos by Chris Becker. - CMJ

After 4 digitally unoffically released albums under the name ‘Bethany Dinsick’ and ‘Square Pi’ Bethany Dinsick is releasing a limited edition 100 cassette tapes for my new name and work SICK DIN

Available now on BandCamp $5 for casette and by donation for the digital album http://bethanydinsicksquarepi.bandcamp.com/album/sick-din
bethanydinsick.com...(cont.) - What Weekly

After 4 digitally unoffically released albums under the name ‘Bethany Dinsick’ and ‘Square Pi’ Bethany Dinsick is releasing a limited edition 100 cassette tapes for my new name and work SICK DIN

Available now on BandCamp $5 for casette and by donation for the digital album http://bethanydinsicksquarepi.bandcamp.com/album/sick-din
bethanydinsick.com...(cont.) - What Weekly

Earlier this month Baltimore musician/vocalist, performance artist, and filmmaker Bethany Dinsick relocated to New York for a short spell just to explore a different arts community. The 2007 Towson University graduate has been an underground presence in recent years, whether it be performing at the Transmodern Festival or the Bank, helping to start up the Baltimore Experimental Dance Collective (with Sarah Autrey, Sigrid Lauren, Sarah Magida, Sophia Mak, Sophie Moore, Madeline Tess Peters, and Monica Mirabile), performing with other outré vocal gymnasts such as Shodekeh and Gerry Mak, and creating vocal drone folk as Square Pi. These days she’s performing as Sick Din, and as evidenced by the EP of the same name that she recently recorded with Oxes’ Chris Freeland (tentatively scheduled for release later this year), it’s an inviting combination of her woozily transfixing vocal improvisations and Square Pi’s sense of seductive melodies. Tracks such as “Black Heart Trance” and “The Sacred Sacrament of Sex (XXX)” put percussive electronic vocal samples behind her singing voice, and the result is this sort of haunting joy—the inverse of apocalyptic folk a la Coil or Current 93. Visit YouTube to check her new video for “Public Service Announcement 2012: Bread,” which is like a DIY Pen & Pixel album cover come to noise-pop life. Sick Din live blossoms into performance: Dinsick costumes herself as a “celestial space being” and performs with John Somers (aka local producer Do While—whose bucolic four-song EP is worth downloading at dowhile.muxtape.com), who triggers the various samples of her voice. Sick Din plays the Bohemian Coffee House Oct. 6 with Little Spoon, Birthdays, and Winks. - City Paper - Bret Mccabe

Bethany Dinsick is busy prepping the next full length under her solo moniker. For the forthcoming album Bethany is working with Chris Freeland (Oxes) again, who also recorded 2009's loop-folk record, Bottle Tree. The PSA for "Bread" offers a first taste into Dinsick's new direction. - Impose Magazine - Brett Yale

Bethany Dinsick is busy prepping the next full length under her solo moniker. For the forthcoming album Bethany is working with Chris Freeland (Oxes) again, who also recorded 2009's loop-folk record, Bottle Tree. The PSA for "Bread" offers a first taste into Dinsick's new direction. - Impose Magazine - Brett Yale

The synergy in this city right now is brilliant. I believe Bethany Dinsick is big part of what makes Baltimore… Baltimore. Her DIY spirit, creative energy and relentless determination is a reflection of a place teeming with underfunded, yet highly productive artists. We are a part of a generation brimming with energy, who like to “fuck, drink, dance,” make art, and save the world. We know we don’t need 20th Century thinking to improve our life. We are urban survivalists.

The thing with Bethany Dinsick is that she’s been through so much and still manages to do more than most people ever attempt. What some people would consider a handicap, she fancies a catalyst. Where some people play it safe, she experiments like mad. This is the magic, the quiet strength, that has already made her a prolific artist and musician at 26 years old.

In high school, Bethany made music alone in her room, with an acoustic guitar, quiet enough so that her parents couldn’t hear. Her experience with making music was, at that point, extremely private. It took a long time before she could perform publicly, and since then she’s proven herself to be a visionary songwriter and performer. It will be no surprise to anyone, if decades from now, when speaking of the great experimental musicians of our generation, Dinsick’s name is on the short list.

Around here, she’s known as a musician mostly, but there a lot more to the story. She dances, she paints, she makes video art, she sings in two distinct solo projects of her own, designs costumes and builds instruments, keeps a blog, and sometimes locks herself in the bathroom to record an improv album.

It’s as if she could dive into any conceivable medium and manage to deliver work that is both beautiful and, at times, peculiar. Another gift: She’s not afraid to try. Bethany is unyielding and talented, a powerful combination that often times, and definitely in her case, elicits a rich body of work...(cont.) - What Weekly - Brooke Hall

The synergy in this city right now is brilliant. I believe Bethany Dinsick is big part of what makes Baltimore… Baltimore. Her DIY spirit, creative energy and relentless determination is a reflection of a place teeming with underfunded, yet highly productive artists. We are a part of a generation brimming with energy, who like to “fuck, drink, dance,” make art, and save the world. We know we don’t need 20th Century thinking to improve our life. We are urban survivalists.

The thing with Bethany Dinsick is that she’s been through so much and still manages to do more than most people ever attempt. What some people would consider a handicap, she fancies a catalyst. Where some people play it safe, she experiments like mad. This is the magic, the quiet strength, that has already made her a prolific artist and musician at 26 years old.

In high school, Bethany made music alone in her room, with an acoustic guitar, quiet enough so that her parents couldn’t hear. Her experience with making music was, at that point, extremely private. It took a long time before she could perform publicly, and since then she’s proven herself to be a visionary songwriter and performer. It will be no surprise to anyone, if decades from now, when speaking of the great experimental musicians of our generation, Dinsick’s name is on the short list.

Around here, she’s known as a musician mostly, but there a lot more to the story. She dances, she paints, she makes video art, she sings in two distinct solo projects of her own, designs costumes and builds instruments, keeps a blog, and sometimes locks herself in the bathroom to record an improv album.

It’s as if she could dive into any conceivable medium and manage to deliver work that is both beautiful and, at times, peculiar. Another gift: She’s not afraid to try. Bethany is unyielding and talented, a powerful combination that often times, and definitely in her case, elicits a rich body of work...(cont.) - What Weekly - Brooke Hall

erhaps you have not heard of Bethany Dinsick. Well she’s heard of you. She’s been touring, recording songs and videos and making an insane bevy of gorgeous art up in Baltimore. Her songs, both under her name and her more experimental side project Square Pi, are sound landscapes of tinkling, buzzing, scratching and thumping all resolving continually into catchy folk-pop melodies. Since she’ll be playing at our 3rd monthly music and comedy stage show The Family Hemerlein next thursday, we asked her to introduce herself, her artwork and her music to you–in all it’s intricate, loopy glory....(cont.) - Brightest Young Things

erhaps you have not heard of Bethany Dinsick. Well she’s heard of you. She’s been touring, recording songs and videos and making an insane bevy of gorgeous art up in Baltimore. Her songs, both under her name and her more experimental side project Square Pi, are sound landscapes of tinkling, buzzing, scratching and thumping all resolving continually into catchy folk-pop melodies. Since she’ll be playing at our 3rd monthly music and comedy stage show The Family Hemerlein next thursday, we asked her to introduce herself, her artwork and her music to you–in all it’s intricate, loopy glory....(cont.) - Brightest Young Things

Square Pi is one side of Baltimore singer/visual artist Bethany Dinsick, utilizing her live vocal improvisations with a litany of effects pedals. Bethany’s vocal work stretches boundaries from percussive thumps to grating chants and her strong use of her pedals creates a room full of cohesive weird.

The improvs leave space for a lot of twisting repetitions, but the fun in improv is watching it take shape in front of you, tweaks are happening, but they’re well crafted and honed by someone who is pretty strong in that craft.
- Foxy Digitalis - Andrew Murdock Livingston

Square Pi is one side of Baltimore singer/visual artist Bethany Dinsick, utilizing her live vocal improvisations with a litany of effects pedals. Bethany’s vocal work stretches boundaries from percussive thumps to grating chants and her strong use of her pedals creates a room full of cohesive weird.

The improvs leave space for a lot of twisting repetitions, but the fun in improv is watching it take shape in front of you, tweaks are happening, but they’re well crafted and honed by someone who is pretty strong in that craft.
- Foxy Digitalis - Andrew Murdock Livingston

I’m surrounded by really amazing people here in Baltimore. One of them is Bethany Dinsick who does ethereal loop-pedal folk (I posted about her before). The other night, she performed with the Baltimore Experimental Dance Collective. It was really amazing. Check it out in the above video. - Lost at E Minor - Gerry Mak