We do not aim to "teleconference" between the two performance sites. Instead, we analyze the piano and percussion sets at each location in order to make the information emerge in various ways at the other site. Vanessa's cowbell in Oregon might sound as a similar cowbell in New York, but it might instead appear as a tomtom or as middle C on a computer-controlled piano. Moreover, computer graphics are shown at both sites which can respond in many different ways to musical gestures at either location. The heart of the piece is the exploration of new transformations made possible both by the connection between two performance spaces and by the connection between music and moving images.

Lemma II is part of the global visual music project
http://www.visualmusic.org/gvm.htm

Lemma I was performed in September of 1997 at the ICMC in Thessaloniki
http://www.visualmusic.org/gvm/lemma1.htm

by Miller Puckette, Vibeke Sorensen, Rand Steiger
performed by Steven Schick and Anthony Davis in New York,
and Vanessa Tomlinson, percussion, Scott Walton, piano, and Mark Danks, computers, from the new Intel Conference Center in Hillsboro, Oregon

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