It resembles in many ways a longer variation of the third track from Tangerine Dream's 1974 album Phaedra, "Movements of a Visionary," but it remains a transitional work somewhere between the Krautrock of Schulze's earlier output and the Berlin School character of his following efforts.

Bayreuth is the Bavarian town where Wagner had an opera house built for the first performance of his massive Ring Cycle.

Its rhythmic basis is a single analog sequencer pattern, transposed and manipulated in real time.

String synthesizer chords, improvised melodies, and complex sound effects are the remaining ingredients.

An excerpt of the graphic performance score appears on the inside sleeve of the original vinyl version.