Speakers included Aaron Boodman, Adam Feldman, Adam Schuck, Alex Moffat, Alon Levi, Andrew Bowers, Andrew Hatton, Anil Sabharwal, Arne Roomann-Kurrik, Ben Collins-Sussman, Jacob Lee, Jeff Fisher, Jeff Ragusa, Jeff Sharkey, Jeffrey Sambells, Jerome Mouton and Jesse Kocher. Musical performances at tech events usually feel incongruous, and cringe-y -Remember Lana Del Rey at WWDC? But with an I/O so heavily focused on playful machine learning, it both made sense, and provided some much-needed entertainment - in the form of a belting blob.Speakers included Marissa Mayer, David Glazer, Steve Horowitz, Alex Martelli, Steve Souders, Dion Almaer, Mark Lucovsky, Guido van Rossum, Jeff Dean, Chris DiBona, Josh Bloch, Raffaello D'Andrea, Geoff Stearns. It was a customized, 'massively optimized version' of the blob opera, using supercharged web browser capabilities to show off 16 blobs as musical accompanists. Google engineers worked with Tune-Yards to put together the performance. In a blog post from Google on the collaboration, the singers who voiced the blobs expressed that 'it was incredible to see a real artist working with the blobs as colleagues.' Next, the blobs joined in for some classic Tune-Yards songs and provided the dramatic, operatic vocal accompaniment. The first hint of the blobs came when Tune-Yards lead singer Merrill Garbus began a call and response of nonsense sounds with a shadowy figure on the screen. Tune-Yards played on a round stage, surrounded by tall screens. Google brought the blobs to the stage along with Tune-Yards to open the conference.

Users can move the blobs up, down, and around to create sounds and harmonize with one another, and ultimately record a song. 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. Four opera singers spent hours in the studio recording operatic music. 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. 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. Jack Harlow turns AA meeting into a Pixar movie pitch in 'SNL' sketch

Tune yards and blob opera