The European premiere was performed on June 30, 2015, in Ingolstadt, Germany during the opening concert of the 2015 Audi Sommerkonzerte Festival by the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra under conductor Donato Cabrera.
Bates wrote in the score program notes:The imagined music of these tech workshops begins hyper-kinetically yet sporadically, filled with false starts.
It soon flashes into a quicksilver world of out exotic textures and tunings that is informed by the music of Frenchman Gérard Grisey (whose imaginative orchestrations sound electronic but are completely unplugged).
The exhilarating finale reflects the infectious optimism of the great inventers of our time, who conjured new worlds within the bright Valley’s dark garages.
Reviewing the world premiere, Rob Hubbard of the St. Paul Pioneer Press wrote:It's a very engaging piece with a programmatic pulse, beginning with an opening theme that stutters, stops and restarts a few times, just like a faltering machine making its maiden voyage (a Silicon Valley startup of a different sort).