Host Your Own Blob Opera (Even If You Can’t Read Music)
Some people are born with musical talent. Others spend years, if not decades, taking lessons, only to find that their musical ability is good at best. And there are those who, for various reasons, love music best, rather than create it. No matter which category you fall into, there is a good chance that you will appreciate Blob Opera. Here’s what you need to know.
What is Blob Opera?
Take a look at the image above. These are drops. They are part of a machine learning experiment created by David Lee and presented to us as a result of his collaboration with Google Arts and Culture. Together – with your help and technology – they form an opera. Blob Opera , to be precise.
Lee and his colleagues developed a machine learning model that was trained using the voices of four real-life opera singers to “create an interactive experiment that anyone, regardless of musical skill, can enjoy,” he wrote in a post about the experiments. On the google blog .
These singers – Christian Joel (tenor), Frederic Tong (bass), Joanna Gamble (mezzo-soprano) and Olivia Downney (soprano) – sang and recorded a total of 16 hours of audio material. From there, a machine learning model listened to the tapes and understood what opera singing sounds like, and then developed the voices that would shape Blob Opera.
How to run Blob Opera
Of course, getting to Carnegie Hall takes practice, practice, practice, but to run Blob Opera you only need a device connected to the Internet. To get started, follow these instructions from Lee:
Drag the blobs up and down to change the pitch. Or back and forth for different vowel sounds. Another machine learning model allows blobs to respond to your input and reconcile it in real time.
In fact, this is more than just conducting: you cancreate and record original compositions for Blob Opera, and then share them with your friends, family and other people who probably did not even hint that they have any a desire to listen to an opera created on a computer. number, but I will definitely thank you for this gift.