“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. 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. Blob Extension also lets you bookmark an entire webpage and it automatically saves an important paragraph (200 words) in the webpage as part of the bookmark. “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. Blobs Extension helps you copy and save small yet important pieces of information from a webpage along with their links to your blobs collection. 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. Instead of words, each of the four blobs (a bass, tenor, mezzo-soprano, and soprano) can imitate vowels, making the sessions sound more like a round of Gregorian chanting than a diva's aria.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. That brash upstart? A choir of hypnotic, borderline obscene blobs from Google singing nonsensical chamber music like they're a bunch of high-brow Minions.Ĭreated by David Li for Google's Arts & Culture initiative, the Blob Opera plugged 16 hours of recorded material from actual, operatically trained performers into a machine learning program to approximate human vocal ranges. This experiment pays tribute to those voices, as musical instruments anyone can learn how to play. Although it pains us to say it, with just two weeks left to go in 2020, a new usurper to the throne has emerged to take the Number One spot away from Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion. Blob Opera is a machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture now on tour Opera singers use their voices as expressive and beautiful musical instruments. We know this will be controversial to many, but we here at Input cannot shy away from the Truth™, no matter how much it hurts: contrary to popular belief, " WAP" is not the song of the year.
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