This music touches not only the head and the nerves but also the skin, the body. Thomas can feel the hum in his very heart. Lydia says, and she pushes through a heavy door into the building's main stairwell. They go down a few flights of stairs and stop on a landing which opens out into the building's massive entry hall. They lean on the railing and look out into five stories of open space.
Voices flow through it.
The entire building acts as an instrument. Thomas doesn't believe in God. And yet he agrees with her. But this music has a beauty, a certain calmness, that Hamilton's piece doesn't have. There is a kind of perfection in its polyvocality.