The music was "minimalist" style.
The formal structure of the piece was a chaconne.
A bass line that repeats.
Starting with a cello quartet.
Cumulatively voices were added.
Higher strings, violas, eventually violins.
The emotional flavor was slow, thoughtful, measured, wistful, sad.
The chaconne gave the flavor of inevitability. It keeps on moving along, and along, and along.
But continually growing in complexity and power as voices are added to the framework.
I don't know if Q intended any of these musical connotations, or if the meaning was something simpler, like displaying a incrementing view count, or other symbols.