

The Chrome Music Lab is the latest piece of browser technology from Google that shows off the power of the Web Audio API. The website uses the Web Audio API to turn your browser into an instrument, and includes a number of tools that teach you the basics of harmonics, chords, arpeggios and rhythm.Īccording to The Next Web, the Chrome Music Lab is part of the USA’s Music In Our Schools month, but the collection of instruments are likely to waste more grown-up working hours the the average Google Doodle.Īs well as the more education-focused tools there’s an interactive spectrogram, an abstract Kandinsky-inspired sequencer and tool that lets you record and “spin” your own vocals through your laptop’s microphone.


Google has launched the Chrome Music Lab, a collection of interactive instruments that allow you to experiment with music in your browser. This project is a collaboration with Centre Pompidou in Paris.ĭelve deeper into the pioneer of abstract art's colorful life at g.co/kandinsky where you can uncover rare personal pictures and archival materials - some previously undisclosed to the general public - and discover an unprecedented emotive and educational access into the artist’s legacy and retrace his life online.The Google Doodle has a musical companion. There are four chapters to the experience:ġ) Explore Kandinsky's theories on color and sound and the relationship between shapes,Ģ) Hear the composed version of the painting created with help from machine learning,ģ) Discover the emotions Kandinsky associated with color and shape and 'play the painting'.Ĥ) You can create and share your own musical mix of the painting, highlighting your chosen emotions as inspired by Kandinsky. We recommend watching the film above that details how the machine learning model was used. In a collaboration between sound artists Antoine Bertin and NSDOS, and Google Magenta's machine learning model Transformer, the sounds you hear are inspired by Kandinsky's extensive writing on the sounds he associated with colors & shapes. ‘Play a Kandinsky’ invites you to hear what Vassily Kandinsky might have heard when painting "Yellow-Red-Blue" in 1925 by bringing to life his theories and writings on his synesthesia & Abstract Art.
