Blob Opera

Blob Opera is a machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture.

Google developed a machine learning model trained on the voices of four opera singers in order to create an interactive experiment anyone can enjoy, regardless of musical skills.
Tenor, Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo-soprano Joanna Gamble and soprano Olivia Doutney recorded 16 hours of singing. In the experiment you don’t hear their voices, but the machine learning model’s understanding of what opera singing sounds like, based on what it learnt from them.

Drag the blobs up and down to change pitch, or forwards and backwards for different vowel sounds. The blobs respond to and harmonise your input in real time.