Computer vision enables cybernetic opera

New Scientist has an interview with Tod Machover, director of the Hyperinstruments and Opera of the Future groups at MIT’s Media Lab. He has created the opera, Death and the Powers, in which one of the actors is backstage, monitored by computer vision, and his performance “is infused into the stage through lighting, images, sound and robotics. The set emotes.” In this way, the set becomes active and interacts with on-stage characters.