Founded in 2015, Tears|Ov are sound artist and self-taught musician Lori E Allen, classically trained cellist and mixed media artist Katie Spafford and illustrator/prison psychotherapist Deborah Wale. The trio first collaborated on Lori E Allen’s Tears Of The Material Vulture cassette (The Tapeworm), a re-imagination of a brief collaboration with Madame Chaos of cut-up cablecasts from 1995–96, on Manhattan Neighborhood Network and Television in New York City. That release served to reawaken a hibernating creative practice between the three friends.