The user will have to be comfortable with ranges because each blob will take over if the user is in their range and if there is overlap, there will be a bit of a fight for which blob sings. Once the MIDI controller is in, all the chromatic notes become available. Plug in a MIDI controller and things get different. Learners could plan out a melody and find those pitches in Blob Opera and compose a short piece of music with them. This app defaults to an A major tonality and lets the user play with a melody within the parameters of those pitches. We often think that a composition has to be written out, but it just needs to be recorded in some form, and that can be an audio recording. It gives the user the ability to record a composition. It has the potential to enable creativity, and can give learners the opportunity to play with the concepts of not only composition, but also arranging, blend and vowel formation, ear training, voice types and ranges, computer programming, and even theory! Here are some ideas for including Blob Opera into your lesson plans.
It’s fun, right? This online machine-learning app is more than just a fun time filler. Additional singing from Ingunn Gyda Hrafnkelsdottir and John Holland-Avery.īlob Opera is an experiment using the latest web audio technology and may not perform optimally on older devices.So, you’ve learned about Google’s new Blob Opera. Tenor Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo-soprano Joanna Gamble and soprano Olivia Doutney. Hear the blobs sing a curated selection of traditional, classic songs in the public domain from each location. Take the blobs to cities around the world, and find inspiration in the music and landmarks of London, New York, Mexico City, Seoul, Cape Town, and Paris. We’ve seen the blobs do their thing in The Blobpera House, now you can take them on tour. Another machine learning model lets the blobs respond to and harmonise with your input in real time. 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 to train an algorithm called a Convolutional Neural Network. They collaborated with four opera singers to teach a machine learning model how to sing. This experiment pays tribute to those voices, as musical instruments anyone can learn how to play. Opera singers use their voices as expressive and beautiful musical instruments. Blob Opera is a machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture.
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