The website begins with a barely visible question: what is dissonance? Like in any academic endeavor, in order to learn you must keep asking questions. The key to advancing through this site is to find and click the correct question mark on each page.
Clicking on the question mark brings you to a dissonant definition of dissonance.
Next, three sound clips are introduced that display audio various instances of dissonance.
As the user hovers over the next blank page, blocks appear and dissapear under the cursor. Hidden messages are revealed and taunt the user's inquisitive nature. What looks to be a hidden Mona Lisa turns out to be Marcel Duchamp's iconic and dissonant interpretation of the famous painting.
The user is then presented with a riddle. Once the user finds the hidden question marks on the page, the words rearrange to form a sentence, reavealing that the answer is hidden in plain site.
This leads to a page that appears to be perpetually loading. This page is an homage to composer John Cage's 4'33? in which the audience is forced to sit in absolute silence for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. If the user waits long enough, he or she will realize that the page is slowly darkening to reaveal a hidden question mark that allows the user to advance.
Finally, it seems the user has been brought to the first page with the definition of dissonance. Upon closer inspection, the definitions on the page have actually been replaced with definitions of patience. In order to understand and appreciate dissonance, we must all exercise patience. The site continues to loop, allowing the user to reinvestigate the site with a new perspective on dissonance.
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