Visual Audio Sensory Theater

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Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Studio album by VAST
Released April 28, 1998
Recorded 1997-1998 in Los Angeles, California
Genre Alternative rock
Experimental rock
Length 51:29
Label Elektra
Producer Jon Crosby
Professional reviews
VAST chronology
VAST Is...
(1998)
Visual Audio Sensory Theater
(1998)
Music for People
(2000)

Visual Audio Sensory Theater is the debut album by the band VAST. It was released on April 28, 1998. The album mixed samples of Benedictine monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur and Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares, with an 18-piece orchestra, guitars and electronics.

In 2005, an audio commentary of the record (spoken by Jon Crosby) was made available to VAST Fan Club members.

Additionally, a "Q & A" audio commentary of the record was made available to VAST Fan Club members in January of 2007, akin to the Music for People audio commentary released in December of 2006.

The first single released from the album was "Pretty When You Cry". The second, "Touched", was featured in the Angel soundtrack, Angel: Live Fast, Die Never and the companion CD to the Everworld book series, titled The Everworld Experience.

Other album tracks featured in various media include "Flames", which was used in the German movie Sommersturm, and "Here", which has been used in two episodes of Angel.

VAST music has been used in several other productions, including "The 7 Fingers" [Les sept doigt de la main] acrobatic performance - "Traces"

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Here" – 4:56
  2. "Touched" – 3:57
  3. "Dirty Hole" – 5:36
  4. "Pretty When You Cry" – 3:50
  5. "I'm Dying" – 4:09
  6. "Flames" – 4:37
  7. "Temptation" – 3:09
  8. "Three Doors" – 4:58
  9. "The Niles Edge" – 4:35
  10. "Somewhere Else to Be" – 3:05
  11. "Untitled" – 3:42
  12. "You" – 4:55