News Summary

• In Western music, the vast majority of sounds are made up of 12 notes.
• Angine de Poitrine don’t abide by these rules.
• Instead the duo use a distinctive guitar built by one of the duo, known as Khn.
• They added extra frets, which allow them to effectively play notes between notes.
• The interplay of expectation and surprise in music plays a key role in how human brain is already forming expectations, says Robert Zatorre, a cognitive neuroscientist at McGill University.