The new Google Magenta Project (created by Inter!) Lets you mix low-fi, hip-hop music tracks to create custom music rooms in your browser, without the need for any browsing capabilities. Magenta is built to use Google’s machine learning systems to create art and music, and the low-fi player is a fun example of what it can do.
When you open the low-fi player, you’ll be taken to a pixelated virtual “room” where you click different click objects – a clock, a cat or a piano, into a room to change different tracks. Line and melody “The view outside the window corresponds to the background sound of the track, and you can change both the scene and the music by clicking on the window,” low-fi player player Wibert Theo wrote in a blog post.
Theo writes that the team chose the music-generating room format instead of a composition tool or musical instrument because it is “a popular genre with a relatively simple music structure.” It is powered by Magenta.js, an open source JavaScript API for using the Magenta in-browser (check Drumbot for another example).
The low-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 in the live chat window to rearrange the trajectories.
Magenta is powered by Google’s open source tensorflow system as part of an ongoing research project, “Exploring the Role of Machine Learning as a Tool in the Creative Process.” Other magenta projects include Piano Genie, an AI program that allows anyone to “play” the piano. Guitar Hero), And Encinth, is a machine learning algorithm that uses neural networks to learn and create new sounds.
Low Fi Player is customizable; Its source code can be found on GitHub, and Theo says the team played “Play, Magenta!” Also created a tutorial on the name. Where users can edit sound and canvas in their own browsers. Theo also emphasizes that Low Fi Player is not designed to replace human producers or existing low-Fi hip hop streams. He says, “Think of it more as a prototype for an interactive piece of music or an interactive introduction to the genre, so that people can help appreciate art more.”
Check out the low-fi player here.
