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BODYMOUTH
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⸻⸻❱❰BodyMouth is a computational sound-movement tool that turns the body into an instrument for speech. Dancers wearing sensors sound out words phoneme-by-phoneme by performing specific gestures in sequence, as if the body is quite literally a mouth that speaks.
The geometries involved in speech production—including the tongue, oral cavity, lips, and larynx—are mapped in real time via custom software to precise spatial data from several trackers on a performer's body. BodyMouth is a form of body augmentation that that displaces the production of speech outside of the mouth and onto the rest of the body. The result is a mesmerizing blend of dance and language that discombobulates language, breath, and body in exciting new ways.⸻⸻❱❰
⸻● CREDITS
Concept, Direction, Design: Kat Mustatea | Creative Technology: Yonatan Rozin
⸻● AWARDS
⦿Lumen Prize - Interactive Immersive Award Finalist 2024
⦿Guthman Prize for New Musical Instruments Finalist 2024
⤻Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant 2025—for The Mutables
⤻Creative Capital Award Shortlist 2025
⤻New York State Council for the Arts Grant 2023
⸻● RESIDENCIES
Artist-In-Residence, Barnard Movement Lab | Project Fellow, New York University’s ITP / IMA Program | Artist-in-Tesidence, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center | Onassis ONX | Artist-in-Residence, Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre | New York State Council on the Arts | MOCO—Conference on Movement and Computing
⸻● SHOWS
see also: 〰 bodymouth project website
2025⎞〰 Premiere〰 The Mutables. HERE Arts Center, New York (US)
2025⎞〰 ielele. EdgeCut Arts, New York (US)
2025⎞〰 Helicopter
2025⎞ 〰 Alien Voices. ISSUE Project Room, New York, NY
2024⎞ 〰 Alien Voices. Ferst Center for the Arts. Atlanta, GA. Part of Guthman Prize Showcase
⸻● PRESS
CBS Sunday Morning | Gizmodo | HowlRound
“[BodyMouth] creates the possibility for brand new genres of artistic expression.”—Gizmodo
