It is amazing fun to play, relieves stress, and honestly sounds beautiful.ĭo yourself a huge favor and forget about this awful year by spending some time on Blob Opera. The work can even be recorded and shared. The other blobs can harmonize with the music as it is being made. The user drags each of the blobs up and down and back and forth to change the pitch and the vowel of the sound being created. It can be accessed on mobile devices however, it seems to work better on a newer desktop browser. If creating an original piece isn’t for you, there are also Christmas carols that can be accessed by clicking the Christmas tree button at the bottom of the screen. The blob chorus doesn’t sing actual lyrics, but creates the effect with vowel sounds. The algorithm then creates a sound based on what it learned. The Blob Opera team created a machine learning model using these vocal recordings. These talented vocalists recorded sixteen hours of singing for this project. Additional singing was provided by Ingunn Gyda Hrafnkelsdottir and John Holland-Avery. The voices of the blob chorus are supplied by tenor Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo-soprano Joanna Gamble, and soprano Olivia Doutney. Li is also behind artwork seen on Adult Swim and an immensely satisfying fluid art activity. Li is an Artist in Residence at Google Arts and Culture. Google Arts and Culture describes Blob Opera as an experiment to explore the human voice by allowing users to play with four operatic voices.
Technology and art have come together once again to bring forth the Blob Opera. Introducing Blob Opera, an experiment I created for Google Arts & Culture: Arts and Culture brings its users virtual art galleries, augmented reality, and interactive activities. The other blobs will automatically harmonize thanks to machine learning. Browse to the application source file ( app. Open the developer tools usually by right-clicking anywhere and choosing Inspect. Drag them forward and back to switch between vowels (a, e, i, o, and u). Open the Blob Opera web page, preferably with Google Chrome. Drag a blob up and down to change notes and move up and down a scale. Making music with the Blob Opera is simple. From there, it was just a matter of creating an interface. The process started with recording four opera singers and then feeding 16 hours of info to a machine-learning algorithm.Īfter that, the neural network could create an opera like sound with four pitch options: bass, tenor, mezzo-soprano, and soprano. Google’s latest experiment turns you into a composer, and you don’t even need to know musical theory.Īrtist David Li worked with Google’s Arts and Culture wing to create the Blob Opera. What if you could make an excellent opera right now by dragging around some blobs? Yes, blobs.
Learning to compose amazing music in any genre takes decades of hard work, study, and creativity.
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