Willis Conover’s Microphone

Origin
While broadcasting as a radio jockey on Voice of America, Willis Conover found his shtick by committing every airing to jazz. As his soothing voice and easy vocabulary kept bringing back listeners, concerts, festival and interviews with jazz icons became his career standard. Although his broadcasts remained obscure to most American listeners, he appealed to Eastern European and African Americans. The spontaneity and mellowness of jazz allowed fans to mentally escape the structure of Communism and helped desegregation take hold in the Washington D.C. social scene.

Effects
Direct exposure to breathing will fill the air with soothing, soul-calming jazz music. Any listener feels all anger and anxiety ebb away, leaving them in a more tranquil state. The music will constantly change tempo when exposed to another person. Only the first and current user will suffer the downside, becoming uninteresting and ignored by their friends and colleagues.