Another machine learning model lets the blobs respond to and harmonise your input in real time.Ĭlick the Christmas Tree for a holiday surprise based on the top searched Christmas Carols of the year. Or forwards and backwards for different vowel sounds. 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.ĭrag the blobs up and down to change pitch. Tenor, Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo‑soprano Joanna Gamble and soprano Olivia Doutney recorded 16 hours of singing. 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. This experiment pays tribute to and explores the original musical instrument: the voice. Meanwhile, Google Arts & Culture has also released a series of holiday-themed virtual colouring books to get you in the festive mood – if a quartet of joyfully warbling blobs hasn’t done that already.“Blob Opera is a machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture. His Fluid Paint tool is also wildly addictive. His not dissimilar Choir for Adult Swim lets you click and drag a group of CG lips to make them sing, and his Elastic Man, also for Adult Swim, lets you pull at Morty’s skin and let go to watch it ripple and wobble. To build the instrument, four singers Christian Joel (tenor), Frederick Tong (bass), Joanna Gamble (mezzo-soprano) and Olivia Doutney (soprano) recorded many hours of singing, yet in Blob Opera you don’t hear their actual voices you hear what the machine learning model understands of what opera singing sounds like.ĭavid Li has a reputation for making brilliantly fun interactive tools. Google says in a blog post that the experiment “pays tribute to and explores the original musical instrument: the voice”. Or you can switch to Christmas mode, and watch the blobs sing festive songs while wearing Santa hats – who needs carol singers! 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. 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. 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. Whatever you’re doing right now, it can wait – because Blob Opera is probably the most fun you’ll have today.
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