
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. In seconds, you’ll be able to touch the jelly dolls to make them sing.The idea, Freya Murray, program manager for Google Arts & Culture suggests, is to explore what she describes as humanity's first instrument-the voice.Click on « Clever” to be able to play.
Hit the blue button that says “Start Experiment”. Write the following words: “Blob Opera” (without the quotes). Click on the small magnifying glass located at the top left of the screen. When you have installed it, you will have to follow these steps to be able to play Blob Opera from your mobile: You can download it for free from the box that we leave you at the end of this paragraph. If you want to create your own opera concert from your Android mobile, you will need to download the Google Arts & Culture app and install it on your phone. In a few words, you have to drag the bar towards the note that you want these interesting dolls made of gelatin to sing.Īs if all this were not enough, Blob Opera allows you to record the musical session that is in progressso you can share opera concerts through messaging apps simply and quickly. It is worth mentioning that making the jelly monsters sing is not complicated at all. Available for free for both mobile devices and computersthose who want to give this curious project a chance, should download the Google Arts & Culure app, the same one that allows us to know what art character we resemble, or enter the official Blob Opera website.