Bored? Compose your own inspiring 'blob opera' in seconds.

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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