BodyMouth is a bespoke computational sound / movement tool created by Kat Mustatea that turns the body into an instrument for speech. Wearing sensors on various body parts, a dancer sounds out words phoneme-by-phoneme by performing specific gestures in sequence, as if the body is quite literally turned into a mouth. BodyMouth was a finalist for the 2024 Guthman Prize for New Musical Instruments and the 2024 Lumen Prize for new media art.

CREDITS:

concept, direction, design Kat Mustatea |

creative technology Yonatan Rozin |

videography & editing Tanya Stolpovskaya |

costuming Camelia Skikos & Kari Love |

voiceover Diana Arnold |

additional videography Nate Dorr, Kelly Snook, Kat Mustatea |

in order of appearance: Carl Ponce Cubero | Kaylin Maggard | Mizuho Kappa | Yonatan Rozin | Joanie Brittingham | Kat Mustatea | June Kuhn | Patrick Rufino | Christopher Strawley | Emily Pope | Flora Ferguson | Olga Rabetskaya | Monique Osorio