[ WP ] Magic is discovered and it 's channeled with music . Modern nations dissolve and new countries rise in their place divided by the preferred music . In the frozen north lie the Metal kingdoms . Far to the south are the countries of Soul etc .

I guess the first Note Benders started to show up around 2021. 
 
 Two years before, DARPA had just announced the creation of new sound systems that were able to reach pitches and tones never before heard by the human ear - some of which we are not even capable of perceiving. Many dismissed it thinking we would n't ever have a need for sounds we ca n't even hear. But we did n't really ask many questions, and the inventors did n't explain much either, so we just let it go. 
 
 Hypersonic Speakers became the new thing. People bought their fancy sound systems just as a show of status; to gloat about their new toy that nobody saw the difference in anyway. 
 
 Until some very strange things started to happen. 
 
 Seizures, comas, and heart attacks started spiking in numbers - all among owners of Hypersonic systems. Cases of sudden onset of mental illnesses and disabilities with no reasonable explanation, and even mass hysteria started to occur. People were terrified and nobody could explain what was happening. 
 
 In the next two years, the number of unexplainable deaths that could somehow be attributed to Hypersonic players increased, but nobody really understood what was going on. The fear was grave and Hypersonic sound systems were banned from sale. Nobody was allowed to manufacture these speakers anymore. 
 
 2021 
 
 As we all know, if something is illegal, someone has it and someone else is selling it. 
 
 Even with the mysterious deaths occurring due to Hyspersonics, people still wanted the systems. Some claimed they felt different when they heard certain music through those speakers. Some people claimed they could feel things surging inside of them, like a force gaining life. 
 
 Much like a heavy drug, Hypersonics was something you risked your life for, but only with a chance of feeling this great rush. You were definitely more likely to die first. 
 
 It was with a bootleg Hypersonic system that we first learned the truth about sounds. This'magic' that exists within all humans, yet nobody could understand it until now, when we had the technology to access it. 
 
 It was actually a DJ who forever changed the world.
