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“An erratic semantic output”: Trump’s speech patterns become avant-garde compositions in a new work by British musician Martin Gordon

Martin Gordon.

Setting aside the contents – and comprehensibility – of his speeches, there is something undeniably fascinating about Donald Trump’s speech patterns. His sprawling self-described ‘weave’ moves with an avant-garde unpredictability; erratically changing pace, returning to and elaborating on repeated themes, often trailing off and leaving cadences unresolved.

Evidently, it's not only us who thinks this. With his new release, His Mother Was a Woman, Berlin-based British musician Martin Gordon has turned Trump’s speech patterns into a full album of musical compositions.

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