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. In the experiment, you don’t hear their voices, but rather the machine learning model’s understanding of what opera singing sounds like, based on what it learned from the opera singers.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.

Tenor, Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo-soprano Joanna Gamble, and soprano Olivia Doutney recorded many hours of singing. The animation uses machine learning to mimic and model the voices of real opera singers. Introducing Blob Opera, an experiment I created for Google Arts & Culture: /UYbZH8jXE2 Record your creation and share it with family & friends, especially the person who already seems to have everything - you can be sure this will be their first Blob Opera. Guide the pitch and vowel sound of our four festive blobs who stand ready to transform your musical ideas (no matter how good or bad) into beautiful harmonies.

The blobs can be pulled in any order to create a song that can be recorded. The red blob is a soprano, the green is a mezzo-soprano, the blue is a tenor, and the purple is a beautiful bass. In order to make the animated blobs sing, the viewer virtually pulls up on one of four different blobs that sing at different pitches depending on how high they are pulled. David Li, thee talented animator behind the stretchy elastic Morty head and the interactive choir of singing lips, partnered with Google Arts & Culture to create a very festive interactive animated “Blob Opera”.

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