Make music with your Tounge!

Hye Yeon Nam, a visual and kinetic artist living in Atlanta, has come up with a music system that uses the tongue, rather than the hand, to generate sounds and melodies.
The human tongue can actually rival the hands and fingers in terms of it's ability to perform manipulative tasks, and with this concept in mind, the Tongue Music System was born. The system is run by two peoples' tongues: One person stands in front of a projector, which displays an abstract video image consisting of hundreds of dots or large pixels. The performer uses a head mounted system to control the mouse with his tongue to simultaneously play the main melody and to manipulate the video images. The other performer create various piano melodies by placing the tongue against one of multiple bottles.

 

The headset (the "Tongue Drive System") possesses sensors that detect the magnetic field from a small magnet secured on the tongue with tissue adhesive. These sensor readings are wirelessly transmitted to the computer.
For the second performer, two bottles contain the circuit board of a mini-electronic keyboard. The bottles also contain four magnets each attaching to springs. When a performer touches the tongue magnet to a section of the bottle, it attracts the closest magnet, which touches a metal switch connected to the circuit board. This connection completes a circuit that causes a specific piano note to be played.