September 29th, Trump and Biden took to the stage to hold this election's first presidential debate. Debate is a storied institution, we're told, hailing from such a pedigree that participants, on good faith alone, were expected to abide by agreed-upon rules. What resulted was a nonsensical cascade of interruptions as Wallace, the debate's moderator, desperately tried to reign spurious accusations, masculine showboating and petty insults into the quarter of productive policy distinctions. Across Twitter's #DebateNight thread, the prevailing meme was that of two kindergartners locked in a playground brawl; across news networks, the predictable rounds of “look-ma'-my-team-won” punditry. By all around consensus, the dominating adjective was “embarrassing”.
The following is a music generator that plays with the characterization of the debaters as mud-slinging schoolchildren.
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Press the Interrupt button to interrupt the current speaker and move on to the next. Every interruption introduces a random element of dissonance.
Once discordant, there is no re-harmonizing. Luckily, you can refresh your browser.
