[filoeleven]

Oh that simultaneous site is neat! Doesn’t work for me on iOS but what a great idea. I’ve been using two separate devices for that kind of thing (mostly confirming mashups that I will likely never follow through with, but it’s still fun to do).

Looks like you know more than me about how our brains process audio. I was running on the assumption that some kind of frequency analysis made it to our higher processing centers, is that not the case? Given that what we hear all the time is incredibly chaotic (multiple pitches that we hear as chords, lyrics vs the rest of the music, focusing on one person speaking, etc) I thought we must at least be running some kind of internal spectrum analyzer and continuously comparing new input to previous averages or something.

There almost has to be a clock-like reference construct somewhere, right? The ability of some people to perceive perfect pitch points to it IMO.