The blobs are back in town.
Google opened its I/O developer conference Tuesday with a performance that felt genuinely innovative, and actually fun, from the avant-garde vocal and electronica artist Tune-Yards — and Google’s own Blob Opera.
The Blob Opera is an interactive Google Arts & Culture project from December 2020 that lets users create their own opera song, sung by animated blobs. Four opera singers spent hours in the studio recording operatic music. Their voices were assigned to four animated characters — called blobs — one each for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and bass, with the ability to harmonize and sing together due to the machine learning algorithm that powers the project. Users can move the blobs up, down, and around to create sounds and harmonize with one another, and ultimately record a song. Read more…
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