Google Magenta’s Lo-Fi Player lets you create your own virtual music room
Google Magenta A new Google Magenta project (created by an intern!) 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 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," Lo-Fi Player creator Vibert Thio wrote...