Bounce House // Christine Sun Kim

Bounce House is a project by Christine Sun Kim, a sound artist who multilaterally approaches sound and aural language as “social currency,” and attempts to criticize and unlearn the established concepts of sound. It is a dance party with sounds below 20Hz, which are generally said to be inaudible and are typically filtered out of CD and mainstream recording/broadcasting media. Bounce House reveled in the opportunity to communally share awareness of the tactile qualities of sound. Bounce House premiered at Fusebox Festival, Austin, in April 2015 in collaboration with the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas and the Church of the Friendly Ghost. Attendees immersed themselves in a room expressly designed with an audio system that delivered very low frequency sounds, dancing to beats that could only be felt rather than heard, exposing a deeper understanding of what sound can be.

Lauren Klotzman contributed music to Bounce House.