The instruments can be understood to be a stage in a search to develop a set of jazz melodic, rhythmic, and percussion sounds, with each failure to achieve this goal an opportunity to explore the sounds currently on hand. The title also is an ironic acknowledgment that computer music is said to be distant and cold, as well as an amused response to the claim of Utah scientists to have developed an unlimited source of renewable energy. A long development section ensues full of ominous sounds. One instrument sounds like a rattlesnake, another like the invading space ships in the 1953 film War of the Worlds. There is an overall character of the outdoors at night, suggestive of insect choirs and the wind blowing through trees.
Notes start arriving in splatters.
When the recapitulation begins, the performance has a drunken quality. Three sets of instruments play the opening music out of synch with one another. It takes them thirty seconds to get back in phase, at which point low bell sounds enter and muddy the texture. The following section with the sustained tones is altered by the addition of rapid twittering passages. But a final quiet coda presents new material and changes the mood to that of sitting outside in a peaceful place on a starry night, watching for shooting stars.