Using the image processor as it was intended as a performance instrument, Icron exploits the processor’s real-time capabilities: the image and soundtrack were generated through simultaneous improvisation, although the color was added later. The title of the piece is a neologism created by fusing "icon" with "chron" as a reference to the effect of temporal changes on images. Snyder combines iconographic elements of broadcast television with the structural features of music by deconstructing the face of a newscaster into scan lines. The newscaster’s speech is also re-modulated to produce a cartoonish effect that is equally humorous and sinister. Because the content of his discourse is obscured, only the rhetorical tics of authoritarian pronouncement remain.