And to that end, each of the four blobs performs one of four singing voice ranges: tenor, bass, mezzo-soprano and soprano. The blobs have been programmed to replicate the style of opera singers by training them with operas sung by real singers: Christian Joel, Frederick Tong, Joanna Gamble and Olivia Doutney. They sing upright next to one another, as if a small choir. The blobs are colorful armless and legless creatures with mouths, eyes and Santa hats. blob Opera then puts them all together (in melodies and harmonies) into a composition and the blobs perform it. Programming is done by dragging sliders for each of the blobs for different parts of the score. Users can program four singing blobs with assistance from a behind-the-scenes machine learning algorithm. The app is available on Google's Arts & Culture, EXPERIMENTS page. Check out Google’s Magenta Lo-Fi Player here and Google’s Music Week on Inside Guide here.The idea, Freya Murray, program manager for Google Arts & Culture suggests, is to explore what she describes as humanity's first instrument-the voice. This isn’t Google’s first fun music experiment. The blobs don’t simply play samples of their voices, rather the machine learning model’s understanding of what opera singing sounds like. The machine learning model was created by David Li and trained on 16 hours of singing from four opera singers: tenor, Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo‑soprano Joanna Gamble and soprano Olivia Doutney. Here you can select from 8 popular Christmas Carols. You’ll see a playlist icon in the lower right corner. Active Christmas mode to don the Santa hats and let the snow fall.

Once you’ve got used to the basics, hit record to share your creations with friends. Silence any blob by simply clicking the mute swich above their head. Drag forwards and backwards to sing different vowels. Pitches stick to a scale, so there are no wrong notes. Simply drag the different blobs up and down to alter pitch as they all sing along in perfect harmony. It’s easy to get started creating your choir. Using machine learning Blob Opera replicate a four piece opera choir.

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