{"id":88791,"date":"2022-12-14T11:09:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=88791"},"modified":"2022-12-14T11:09:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:09:05","slug":"scoop-google-blobs-back-new-classical-music-beethoven-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/12\/14\/scoop-google-blobs-back-new-classical-music-beethoven-games\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Google Blobs Are Back With New Classical Music And Beethoven Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_88792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88792\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Google-Blobs-Beethoven.jpg\" alt=\"Image courtesy of Google\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Google<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Google&#8217;s Blob Opera is back to see 2022 out the door and spread the joy of classical music.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZfLYuXi6sDI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blob Opera<\/a> was an online sensation in 2021, a machine learning experiment by creator David Li with Google Arts &amp; Culture. Users can create their own song in opera style by manipulating the colourful Blobs on their screens.<\/p>\n<p>Two new games offer users fun ways to explore classical music, including one with a focus on our namesake, Ludwig van Beethoven.<\/p>\n<h3>Blob Beats<\/h3>\n<p>Blob Opera Blob Beats offers a mini-game that takes users through five of the most beloved compositions of Western classical music arcade style.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it works<\/p>\n<p>You can access the new experiment <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/experiment\/blob-beats\/ZgF_e3-CO-iRPw?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose from Beethoven\u2019s <em>Fur Elise<\/em>, Wagner\u2019s <em>Valkyrie<\/em>, Vivaldi\u2019s <em>Spring<\/em>, Mozart\u2019s <em>Turkish March<\/em> or Offenbach\u2019s <em>Infernal Galop<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>Choose from easy, medium or hard level of play;<\/li>\n<li>As the music plays, you&#8217;ll be controlling the blobs as they sing;<\/li>\n<li>For PC or laptop, the goal is to hit the S, D, F and G keys to coincide with the notes as they drop into a white circle to make the corresponding blob sing the correct note.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The game records how often you can accurately hit the notes as the piece plays. It also dispenses a few facts about the composers along the way.<\/p>\n<h3>Beethoven Beats<\/h3>\n<p>Beethoven Beats was developed with Deutsche Grammophon, a brand new game where users only need the keyboard spacer to play.<\/p>\n<p>Play the game <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/experiment\/beethoven-beats\/PgH1UvTSVIvCrQ?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Users have four seconds to tap out a random rhythm sequence using the keyboard space bar;<\/li>\n<li>The game will instantly match the rhythm with a section of one of Beethoven&#8217;s piano sonatas;<\/li>\n<li>It plays the sonata, and invites the user to explore the piece in more depth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The game features recordings by pianist Daniel Barenboim.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative was announced on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/outreach-initiatives\/arts-culture\/the-blobs-are-back-and-teaming-up-with-beethoven\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beethoven&#8217;s 252nd birthday<\/a> as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/project\/beethoven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beethoven Everywhere<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Blob Opera is back to see 2022 out the door and spread the joy of classical music with two new arcade style games, Blob Beats and Beethoven Beats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":88792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,4967,39,43,61],"tags":[40403,1456,40404],"yst_prominent_words":[10459,12458,12260,6767,6715,11179,15622,9875,6616,6886,11181,21379,12738,8498],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Google-Blobs-Beethoven.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-n67","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88793,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88791\/revisions\/88793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88791"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=88791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}