The music is in five short movements, each dealing with an aspect of the American Identity in both a particular and a general sense. More generally, the movement represents the dispossessed nature of the American psyche. The piece was created by processing recorded sounds on a NeXT computer. The sounds range from single notes, as is the case with the drums, to entire musical phrases. There is no score other than the algorithmic mix specification.
Quarter tones appear throughout the piece, as do diverging and converging multi-speed canons.