Season 01

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The Owl / Morbid Beauty I pressed play from my collection, so didn't see the story until I was hooked a few tracks in, as the very odd ambient experimental voice / guitar loopings (undistorted Beefheart/Trumans Water vibes at times) and drones started to unfold, unravel (along with my sanity). Nice but unsettling at the same time.

I then read the story of this album and the concept blew my mind, so, yes, click on this, take some time to investigate the sounds with the idea in mind.

Gather round, settle down (E01T05) Favorite track: Episode 01 Track 05.
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    In 02008, Phil Spirito and the MVM attempted to create a Peak TV series backwards.
    Soundtrack and foley are usually the last elements finalized in movie and TV.
    We wondered, "What If you record the soundtrack and foley, if you create diagetic and nondiagetic sound for a TV series first? And then approach writers to realize the script they hear? Or directors to direct the series they hear? Or producers to realize the production they hear?"
    We set out to create every sound element of a Peak TV series: ten episodes a season of contemporary storytelling.
    Over the next three years we recorded two seasons worth of this unnamed show.
    And then we started approaching writers, directors, and producers in Los Angeles and Chicago.
    The people we met with were often intrigued, sometimes baffled, occasionally aghast, but universally unwilling to invest their time and energy into what is, admittedly, a quixotic project.
    Since then we have recorded Season 03.
    As we prepare to embark on recording Season 04, we are making these sounds available to the world.
    If you listen to these tracks and hear a story, we invite you to use them to help you tell that story, to use them as the soundtrack and foley.
    We do not consider these tracks finished and sacrosanct. If the story they tell you requires they be remixed, re-edited, or re-imagined, let us know, we know that no script is filmed without many rewrites. It would be odd if these sounds were to become a soundtrack without many remixes.     ... more
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Episode 01 Track 01 08:57
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Episode 01 Track 02 02:15
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Episode 01 Track 03 05:32
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Episode 01 Track 04 05:42
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Episode 01 Track 05 04:49
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Episode 08 Track 01 03:35
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Episode 08 Track 04 08:32
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Episode 09 Track 01 06:14
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about

In 02008, Phil Spirito and the MVM attempted to create a Peak TV series backwards.
Soundtrack and foley are usually the last elements finalized in movie and TV.
We wondered, "What If you record the soundtrack and foley, if you create diagetic and nondiagetic sound for a TV series first? And then approach writers to realize the script they hear? Or directors to direct the series they hear? Or producers to realize the production they hear?"
We set out to create every sound element of a Peak TV series: ten episodes a season of contemporary storytelling.
Over the next three years we recorded two seasons worth of this unnamed show.
And then we started approaching writers, directors, and producers in Los Angeles and Chicago.
The people we met with were often intrigued, sometimes baffled, occasionally aghast, but universally unwilling to invest their time and energy into what is, admittedly, a quixotic project.
Since then we have recorded Season 03.
As we prepare to embark on recording Season 04, we are making these sounds available to the world.
If you listen to these tracks and hear a story, we invite you to use them to help you tell that story, to use them as the soundtrack and foley.
We do not consider these tracks finished and sacrosanct. If the story they tell you requires they be remixed, re-edited, or re-imagined, let us know, we know that no script is filmed without many rewrites. It would be odd if these sounds were to become a soundtrack without many remixes.

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released May 23, 2010

Phil Spirito
The MVM

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Electroacoustic, ecoacoustic, concrete musique, noisechestra. The last 100 years of western classical music stitched to a lifetime in noise & experimental

Conceptual music built from field recordings

Sound art for dreaming, drifting, disappearing

Ritual magick, slow to cast; slow to coalesce

Invocations unintended for human ears

Music in geologic time

Aureality for the non-conscious mind ... more

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