Using machine learning, the blobs automatically harmonize with each other, and if you like what they’re signing, you can record your musical creation. With Blob Opera, you have a set of four blobs, whose pitch and vowel sounds you can control the pitch of their singing by moving them up or down, forward or back. Introducing Blob Opera, an experiment I created for Google Arts & Culture: /UYbZH8jXE2 A quartet of opera signing blobs is at your command, who have been programmed to sing together in four-part harmony. You don’t need any musical knowledge or training-you just need a penchant for cutely weird cartoon blobs. “In the experiment you don’t hear their voices, but the machine learning model’s understanding of what opera singing sounds like, based on what it learnt from them.Blob Opera is a wonderfully weird new Google AI experiment that uses machine learning to help you compose what’s essentially a Barbershop Quartet of pseudo-Minion-like cartoons, and the internet is already going wild for the fun and festive distraction. Tenor, Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo‑soprano Joanna Gamble and soprano Olivia Doutney recorded 16 hours of singing,” reads a message from Google on the Blob Opera site. “We developed a machine learning model trained on the voices of four opera singers in order to create an engaging experiment for everyone, regardless of musical skills.

You can direct your own Blob Opera on Google’s Arts and Culture site here. As users drag Blobs around the screen, the singers harmonize, changing notes and vowel sounds as snow falls gently around them, teaching both basic music theory and opera in the process. Jingle blobs, jingle blobs, jingle all the way! Need an extra dose of holiday cheer? Look no further than the Blob Opera, Google’s latest, festive machine learning experiment!Ĭrafted by artist David Li in conjunction with Google’s Arts and Culture team, the Blob Opera features four colorful Blob singers in the roles of soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass.

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