Thursday, January 11 - Saturday, January 20, 2007

Advance tickets for CRAM are available here:

Comprised of numerous performances spanning the Factory's many spaces, CRAM combines dance, music, sound art, video and installation into something uniquely new. Structured in the manner of a children's storybook or fairytale, CRAM will include a large scale noise installation by Matt Bauder in which motion sensors will generate a unique soundscape when traversed by performers wearing blindfolds; a series of homegrown musical instruments fashioned out of architectural salvage by Kate Ten Eyck, which will accompany a dance by Lily Skove; a "living sculpture" by Aki Sasamoto incorporating potatoes as percussion instruments; a sound installation by Dan St. Clair involving amplified car horns; and a "live horror film" by Arturo Vidich, which will use the cinematic technique of first-person simulation, embedding video cameras in masks worn throughout the live performance. Each of CRAM's individual elements has been created separately and will be combined mere days before the actual performance. The Factory's storefront gallery will host a collection of notes, objects and drawings related to this process.

lower lights collective last appeared at The Chocolate Factory in Fall 2005 with their critically acclaimed DRAWN. Says the group: "our collaboration maintains each artist's distinct vision while not allowing any particular voice to be greater than another. We basically ignore each other, but are subtly influenced by what we see out of the corner of the eye, or hear out of the corner of the ear". lower lights collective is Matt Bauder (Anthony Braxton, Alvin Lucier), Aki Sasamoto (Koosil-ja Hwang, Jennifer Monson, Yvonne Meier, Jeffrey Schiff), Lily Skove, Kate Ten Eyck, Dan St. Clair, and Arturo Vidich (Yvonne Meier, Trajal Harrell, Christopher Williams, Deborah Hay). In addition to their work at The Chocolate Factory, lower lights collective have appeared at Movement Research @ Judson Church and the Improvised and Otherwise Festival.

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