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Mae is an American rock band that formed in Norfolk, Virginia in 2001. The band's name is an acronym for Multisensory Aesthetic Experience, based on a course taken by drummer Jacob Marshall while a student at Old Dominion University.
Multisensory Aesthetic Experience was released on November 30, 2018 through the band's original record label, Tooth & Nail Records.
The inspiration for this album came after the band had created a large-scale virtual reality experience at the Forbes Under30 Summit in Jerusalem. The event took place at the historic Tower of David.
Dave Elkins recalled, “We performed in front of 650/700 people who all took their smartphones, put them in these cardboard viewfinders and all the visuals that they were seeing were in virtual reality 360 [which] were accommodating the music that we had written and recorded just to accommodate this experience.”