the Machine
It’s just a literalized metaphor for capitalism.
A centralized bureaucratic clock with tendrils that creep into every individual home.
It wants you to think of time in a certain regimented way.
That’s not how time works.
Music destroys it because music is a manipulation and restructuring of time.
Music can sync bodies.
Music is protest and resistance.
It’s basically a government building that looks like a massive pipe organ that takes up most of the sky.
The skyline is visible in almost the same way a mountain is visible.