Founded in 2015, Tears Ov are sound artist/musician Lori E. Allen, classically trained cellist/multimedia artist Katie Spafford and illustrator/prison psychotherapist Deborah Wale. The trio first collaborated on Allen's 'Tears Of The Material Vulture' cassette on The Tapeworm, a re-imagination of a brief collaboration with Madame Chaos of cut-up cablecasts from 1995-1996, on Manhattan Neighborhood Network and Television in New York City. That release served to resurrect a hibernating creative practice between the three friends.