So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have short term aims & limited attention span, and do incredibly stupid things while things blow up. Apart from things blowing up, this is just like the music industry.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.