"Hearing the music will cause the listener to commit suicide,” I mused. “Does it play dissonant chords?"

Xiaotao asked me what a dissonant chord was, and I explained that consonance was a pleasing sound associated with sweetness and acceptability such as music that evoked feelings of happiness. Contrary to that, dissonance caused uneasiness and tension could alter one’s emotions since sound waves affected the structure of liquid in different ways. After all, 90% of the human body was liquid and hormones that controlled human emotion were secreted from various tissues into fluid, such as blood.

The famous Hungarian suicide song "Gloomy Sunday" contained a lot of dissonances. After listening to it, people reported feeling depressed, lost, extremely pessimistic and even suicidal. The effect of the music was perhaps more terrifying than hypnosis. Oftentimes,...