Blob Opera is an experiment in machine learning by David Li and Google. Google
For fans of the interactive treat Adult Swim Choir, its creator has just come out with an even more addictive time-waster: Blob Opera. It might be just what we needed to help distract from the misery of 2020.
Created by David Li with Google Arts and Cultures, Blob Opera asks users to click and drag on a gelatinous blob that plops down on a virtual stage. A robust bass voice bursts out. Vertical movement changes pitch; horizontal alters the vowel sound.
Then another blob drops, this one a tenor. And then a mezzo-soprano. And, finally, a soprano. Before long, they re all harmonizing in a bizarre faux opera that sounds surprisingly alluring. You re the conductor.
Create and share original, albeit simple, operas on the fly, no musical talent required on December 16, 2020, 12:27
Found: Google s latest machine learning experiment is a strange but compelling opera simulator. Dubbed Blob Opera, the gadget puts you in control of four squishy singers who perform improvised operatic pieces on the fly.
Each doughy creature in the Blob Opera has a unique voice bass, tenor, mezzo-soprano, and soprano that you control by dragging the blob up and down to change pitch. Moving left or right changes the vowel sound it sings.
The singers will harmonize with the highest voice leading the harmony. So if you are controlling the soprano, the other three blobs will follow its lead. Likewise, using the tenor means that the bass will sing along while the higher voices remain silent.
Google’s Blob Opera lets you conduct a quartet of singing blobs for instant festive joy
Created by artist David Li, the interactive instrument features four animated blobby characters which you can control to warble at different pitches and vowels and create your own music.
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Whatever you’re doing right now, it can wait – because Blob Opera is probably the most fun you’ll have today. A new machine learning experiment by David Li for Google Arts & Culture, the online interactive instrument features four animated blob characters which you can conduct to create your own music. They were trained on the voices of four real opera singers, a tenor, bass, mezzo-soprano and soprano, and by dragging and stretching them you can control the pitch and vowel they sing. As you play around with their voices, they harmonise with each other creating a mesmerising performance, which you can record and send to a loved one. Or you can switch to Christmas mode, and watch the blobs s
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Hark! The blobs sing!
Or at least, they do in Google’s latest machine learning experiment, the awe-inspiring Blob Opera, which will see a chorus of four adorable, colorful blobs serenade you with spine-tingling operatic music. Drag a blob up or down, and you’ll change what pitch they sing in; drag them from side to side, and you’ll change the vowel sound. Each blob will also harmonize with the others, in what can only be described as magical.
The Blob Opera just sounds
beautiful, with soaring harmonies ringing out from each blob. Four actual opera singers Christian Joel (tenor), Frederick Tong (bass), Joanna Gamble (mezzo‑soprano), and Olivia Doutney (soprano) recorded 16 hours of singing (Ingunn Gyda Hrafnkelsdottir and John Holland-Avery also contributed), but it’s not their actual voices you’re hearing when the blobs sing.