Blob Opera - Creative Brain Breaks for Students and Teachers


Everyone needs a brain break every once in a while. Brain breaks are a great way for both students and teachers to take a break and reset for new learning experiences. While I think movement breaks are one of the best ways to reset and refresh, there also some incredible digital 

One of my new favorites is Blob Opera. These guys always make me smile as I try to find new and creative ways to build my musical skills.

Blob Opera is a Google Arts & Culture experiment that lets users get creative with some unique singing blobs. There is even option to turn on a Christmas Tree to 
Create your own opera inspired song with Blob Opera - no music skills required ! A machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture.

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

This experiment pays tribute to and explores the original musical instrument: the voice. Play four opera voices in real time. No singing skills required!

We developed a machine learning model trained on the voices of four opera singers in order to create an engaging experiment for everyone, 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.

How it works: Drag the blobs up and down to change pitch. Or forwards and backwards for different vowel sounds. Another machine learning model lets the blobs respond to and harmonise your input in real time.

Feeling festive?
Click the Christmas Tree for a holiday surprise based on the top searched Christmas Carols of the year. 

You can even record your best performances and share them with everyone! 

I hope you have some fun with these creative blobs today. 


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