After an exhausting year, we’re now in the doldrums of 2020. The holidays are somehow here, and whether you’re off work, stuck inside after a snowstorm, or just stuck inside, period — you may be bored. If you’re annoyed with Cyberpunk 2077‘s bugs or watched so much Bake Off that you can’t even look at a pastry anymore, here’s a suggestion: Blob Opera.
You read that correctly: Blob Opera. A machine-learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture, Blob Opera lets you compose and sing your very own opera with the help of four blobs: purple, bass; teal, tenor; green, mezzo-soprano; and red, soprano. The tutorial shows you how to vary both pitch and vowels that the blobs sing, all controlled by the higher voices — the soprano. You could even get funky and mute vocal ranges. Read more…
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