Photo by Halline Overby for the LA Phil

GYOPO x LA Phil Insight

Diasporic Refractions

June 8th 2025 at Walt Disney Concert Hall Garden

“Vault”

Composition, Performance and Costume by Sharon Chohi Kim

Vault is a musical performance that investigates the concert hall as site and symbol. Drawing on themes of cultural dissonance and fractured musical identity, the piece enacts a physical and sonic deconstruction: a fragment of the Walt Disney Concert Hall is metaphorically “peeled” from the architecture, then shaken, struck, scraped. What emerges is a collision of noise and beauty: a raw, embodied composition that questions what it means to belong, perform within institutional space.