Yes, that’s true, Google is ready to set a new high with Google Magenta’s Lo-Fi Player. It let you create your own virtual music room -Isn’t is Amazing!. You can also share your room with others. Or if you prefer, just relax, listen, and enjoy the view from the window. The experience is powered by machine learning models from magenta.js.
lets you mix lo-fi, hip-hop music tracks to build a custom music room in your browser, with no musical ability required. Magenta is designed to use Google’s machine learning systems for the creation of art and music, and the Lo-Fi Player is a fun example of what it can do.
When you open Lo-Fi Player, you’re taken to a pixellated virtual “room” where you click different objects — a clock, a cat, or a piano, for instance— in the room to change the different tracks, like the bass line and the melody.
The creator of Lo-Fi Player – Vibert Thio (who is doing internship) quoted that
“The view outside the window relates to the background sound in the track, and you can change both the visual and the music by clicking on the window,”
Thio also quoted that the team chose the format of a music-generating room rather than a composition tool or musical instrument because it’s “a popular genre with a relatively simple music structure.” It’s powered by magenta.js, the open-source JavaScript API for using Magenta in-browser.
Lo-Fi Player also has an interactive YouTube stream, a “shared space” where people can be in the same music room together. But instead of clicking on elements in the room, players type commands into the live chat window to rearrange the tracks.
This is more than a simple point-and-click looping tool, mind. The TV in the middle of the virtual room, for example, enables anyone to create new melodies for their lo-fi mix; it is powered by MusicVAE. Likewise, the nearby radio in the virtual room is powered by MelodyRNN, also enabling users to create new melodies
Lo-Fi Player has been turned into an interactive YouTube stream that the Google researchers will leave up and running for a few weeks. Users can interact with the music player by typing commands into the video chat.
