🔥Hwa Records🔥

🔥𝑾𝑬’𝑹𝑬 𝑩𝑨𝑪𝑲🔥 🔥🔥🔥JUNE 8th🔥🔥🔥 🔥🔥🔥 @laphil 🔥🔥🔥 🕯️And ready to transmute our hwa (translated and mistranslated to fire, rage, pent up emotion, flower ,vase) for our community and GYOPO. 🕯️Come see us perform and catch this powerhouse lineup of artists, musicians, and performers. 🐦‍🔥Roger, Saewon, Kayla, C. 🐦‍🔥 📸photo credit for first image: @kyungwonsong_ 📸 photo credit for second image: @yeonpark__ —— GYOPO and LA Phil Insight @laphil is pleased to announce its Seoul Festival programming, 𝓖𝓨𝓞𝓟𝓞 𝓓𝓲𝓪𝓼𝓹𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓬 𝓡𝓮𝓯𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓘𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼, 𝓢𝔂𝓶𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓲𝓾𝓶, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮 curated by GYOPO. Throughout Walt Disney Concert Hall experience some of the most innovative and important voices in Korean contemporary art, music and performance through video installations by @sirenjung and Kim Heecheon, a symposium co-curated by @sasamiashworth , and an afternoon of multidisciplinary performance co-curated by @h.h_joo and the premiere of new music by @stqpkiraradongjae June 3-10, 2025. Participating artists include: siren eun young jung @sirenjung Heecheon Kim SASAMI @sasamiashworth Yuniya Edi Kwon @yuniya_xx NoSo @nosomusic Mindy Seu @mindyseu KIRARA @stqpkiraradongjae Sharon Chohi Kim @sharonchohikim Hwa Records @hwarecords Young Sun Han @youngsunart Ari Osterweis @pliantstarlets Will Johnson Liessa Son @sonliessa Learn more at laphil.com/insight and gyopo.us! Sign up for our newsletter to receive our official announcement next week.

🔥Hwa Records is a team of Korean diasporic performance based artists and healers composed of Roger Kim, Saewon Oh, Kayla Tange, and Caroline Yoo. Hwa Records was conceived after Caroline Yoo was diagnosed with hwa-byung in 2020. Hwa-byung (fire sickness) is a Korean folk syndrome attributed to the suppression of anger where pent up emotions then manifest in the body. 🔥This documented performance was originally a live 40 minute long performance at the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco on April 21, 2022. The Hwa Records team not only performs and purges individual and collective hwa, loosely translated to fire, rage, and/or pent-up emotion, but also creates rituals for our ancestors to feel at peace by honoring and sending off our historical traumas in the performance. 🔥Hwa Records uses intimate workshops and experimental performance to create community space for diasporic Koreans to discuss and alleviate some of these pressures, and to create places to collectively process the ever-present, but only recently acknowledged racism directed towards Asians. ❤️‍🔥Performers: Roger Kim, Saewon Oh, Kayla Tange, Caroline Yoo ❤️‍🔥Videography: Yeon Park ❤️‍🔥Robot Gayageum Creation: Roger Kim & Andrew Sung-Taek Ingersoll ❤️‍🔥Sound Design/Composition: Roger Kim ❤️‍🔥Video Editing: Kayla Tange & Caroline Yoo

Hwa Records started as a series of intimate workshops for the Korean diaspora to share, process and make meaningful new connections. We are excited to share our Korean history workshop in its 3rd iteration! Korean History & Family Stories Workshop 🗓️ March 7 ⏰ 2-4pm 📍Hwa Studio in Arts District RSVP + application required A lecture and group discussion about the political and societal forces that are the sources of trauma in many Korean families. In this workshop, participants will get a brief review of Korean history, with a special focus on the political and societal forces that are the sources of trauma in many Korean families, as well as the shame that makes it difficult to share and process these traumas. Participants will be encouraged, but not required, to share their family stories. The workshop will begin with a short presentation before opening up for dialogue. Hosted by Hwa Records and faciliated by @rodgepodgemusic This workshop is FREE for members of the Korean diaspora many thanks to the @theicala AIR program 🎉 The mission of Hwa Records is to create community spaces for diasporic Koreans to alleviate these stresses. Our team, composed of artists, musicians, and healers @kayla.tange @c.ryu_portal @saewwwon @rodgepodgemusic fulfills this mission through performance art and facilitating workshops that facilitate connection, group processing and diaologue in hopes of transforming our diasporic challenges into collective joy and catharsis.

To kick off the Fire Horse year, we are excited to offer another series of free workshops to the public! 🐎❤️‍🔥 Where Hwa Lives: Ancestral Memory and the Korean Diasporic body 🗓️March 6 ⏰1-3:30pm 📍Hwa Studio in Arts District RSVP + application required A somatic exploration of ancestral memory in the individual and collective body with group discussion, sound, movement, and herbal tea. This workshop gives members of the Korean diaspora the opportunity to dialogue with, express and explore the ancestral memory that resides in their individual and collective bodies. We still start with group discussion about common challenges that members of the Korean diaspora face due to histories of war trauma, militarization, immigrant displacement, culture clashing, etc. Then we’ll move into a series of deep listening and somatic explorations into what within us wants witnessing, releasing, and remembering. What we discover will culminate into a group ritual using voice, sound and movement with the support of live Korean drumming and a chrysanthemum tea serving. Hosted by Hwa Records and faciliated by @saewwwon @_sunsong_ This workshop is FREE for members of the Korean diaspora many thanks to the @theicala AIR program 🎉 The mission of Hwa Records is to create community spaces for diasporic Koreans to alleviate these stresses. Our team, composed of artists, musicians, and healers @c.ryu_portal @kayla.tange @rodgepodgemusic @saewwwon fulfills this mission through performance art and facilitating workshops that facilitate connection, group processing and diaologue in hopes of transforming our diasporic challenges into collective joy and catharsis. We look forward to meeting you! ❤️‍🔥

🔥✨We are absolutely thrilled to be in residence with such beautiful makers and thinkers for the next year:) We can’t wait to share all that we are planning. Thank you to all that have believed in us transmuting and transforming our collective and personal fires✨🔥 REPOST @theicala ICA LA is thrilled to announce the launch of our Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, a major new initiative created to further our ongoing commitment to directly support artists. The AIR will expand and deepen ICA LA’s presence in the DTLA Arts District—a neighborhood where artists have lived and worked for decades. After a nominations and application process, ICA LA has selected its inaugural cohort of Los Angeles-based artists: Mohammad Tayyeb (@oktayyeb ), Julie Tolentino (@thejulietolentino ), and Hwa Records (@hwarecords ). Each AIR receives free dedicated studio space for a year; a generous $25,000 honorarium; a stipend for materials, research, and production; and ample opportunities to collaborate with ICA LA staff, supporters, and publics. Over the years, ICA LA’s program has maintained a sustained dedication to celebrating the emerging, the overlooked, and the marginalized voices of contemporary art and culture. Working in and across the mediums of performance, sound, workshops, and healing practices, for artists Mohammad Tayyeb, Julie Tolentino, and Hwa Records, the invitation to be in residence at ICA LA marks an unparalleled and singular opportunity at pivotal junctures in their respective practices. A major congratulations to our inaugural cohort of selected artists! We look forward to the year ahead! ICA LA’s Artist-in-Residence program is made possible with lead support from Getty. Generous support is also provided by a Discretionary Grant from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. ICA LA is grateful to AVA Arts District for their in-kind support.

🌬️✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ 𝙁𝙐𝙏𝙐𝙍𝙀 𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙍𝙎 🔥Hwa Records 🐦‍🔥Roger Kim, Saewon Oh, C.Ryu, Kayla Tange Sharing a digital portal into the soundscape made by @saewwwon & @rodgepodgemusic Our performance was an offering calling in our ancient ancestors and their infinite wisdom but also an opening for our future ancestors. Saewon Oh activated our ceremony with a meditation reminding us that soon, 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒐. Photo and Video Credit to Kyungwon Song @kyungwonsong_ , Kevin Kane @kevnkane , Tomo Muscionico @tomo_muscionico & Halline Overby

✨🌬️𝙁𝙐𝙏𝙐𝙍𝙀 𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙍𝙎🌬️✨ 🔥🕯️Hwa Records🕯️🔥 🐦‍🔥Roger Kim, Saewon Oh, C.Ryu, Kayla Tange 🐦‍🔥Thank you to all that witnessed our 𝙁𝙐𝙏𝙐𝙍𝙀 𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙍𝙎 debut at the Blue Ribbon Garden at the Walt Disney Concert Hall @waltdisneyconcerthall on June 8th, 2025. 🕯️In the last few weeks we have witnessed the world continue to enact violence towards multiple communities, nations, and citizens of the land. The devastation is everywhere. 🐦‍🔥Our performance was an offering calling in our ancient ancestors and their infinite wisdom but also an opening for our future ancestors. Saewon Oh @saewwwon activated our ceremony with a meditation reminding us that soon, 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒐. 🐦‍🔥Through our performance we ask, what are the decisions we have to make now so that the world we leave is brighter and more joyous? How do we cultivate a world that cares? What types of futures will we create and protect as ancestors-in-training? 🕯️Endless love to our beautiful community for witnessing and transmuting grief into joy with us. 🐦‍🔥To the entire @gyopo.us family and your beautiful volunteers, we see the dedication you put into creating space for artists, we are so grateful to all of you. 🕯️Thank you to the @laphil team for the assistance with everything and anything technical behind the scenes. 🐦‍🔥And of course thank you to those who continue to find ways to melt 🧊 in the city and make resistance and ritual through art. Until next time, Hwa Records Photo Credit: Audrey Medrano @oddtresleches

Seoul Festival @laphil has begun! Join us for a week of concerts curated by @unsukchinofficial and programming by @gyopo.us at the Walt Disney Concert Hall! Hwa Records will be performing in GYOPO Diasporic Refractions: Performances on June 8th at 1pm. Purchase a ticket to Unsuk Chin & Brahms’ Double Concerto for access to our Blue Ribbon Garden performance showcase with @hwarecords @sharonchohikim @ariel_osterweis and @youngsunart . There are $20 balcony tickets still on sale. Also GYOPO Diasporic Refractions: Symposium with @sasamiashworth @mindyseu @yuniya_xx @nosomusic is at capacity! If you RSVPd and your plans have changed, please relinquish your ticket so someone else can take your seat. Learn more at laphil.com/insight and gyopo.us!

🔥☀️🪞We are so privileged to spotlight Hwa Records (@hwarecords ) for the upcoming 𝐆𝐘𝐎𝐏𝐎 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: Performances program. Hwa Records is a team of diasporic Korean performance-based artists and healers composed of Roger Kim (@rodgepodgemusic ), Saewon Oh (@saewwwon ), Kayla Tange (@kayla.tange ), and C.Ryu (@c.ryu_portal ). Hwa Records formed when C.Ryu was diagnosed with hwa-byung in 2020. Hwa-byung translates literally to fire/anger sickness. Per Dr. Bou-Yong Rhi, the syndrome can come from feelings of restraint when confronting feelings of anger as a consequence of unjust circumstances—this restraint, anger, and rage then manifest physically in the body. In Korea, hwa-byung patients are often older women struggling with the weight of an extremely rigid and strict patriarchal society. For Korean Americans, however, hwabyung can come from continued trauma, racism, and the continued pain of imperialism. Powerfully, Hwa Records uses music to address and heal a collective hwabyung. Through workshops and performances, Hwa Records releases communal hwa through an intersection of music, meditation, and storytelling. For the Diasporic Refractions: Performances program, Hwa Records will be one of four artists/artist groups coming together to create a performance that exhibits the transformation of collective memory and demands collective imagining and building of liberatory futures. Hwa Records’s inclusion is especially memorable for our community, as co-founder Roger Kim was formerly a GYOPO volunteer. You can learn more about Hwa Records through their website: /my-site Experience Hwa Records’ transformative healing through our 𝐆𝐘𝐎𝐏𝐎 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: Performances program; RSVP is FREE with purchase of a concert ticket– link in bio and on the LA Phil Insight website. 𝐆𝐘𝐎𝐏𝐎 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: Performances 📍 June 8, 2025, 1PM Blue Ribbon Garden, Walt Disney Concert Hall Photo credit: Yeon Park #GYOPOdiasporicRefractions ✍🏻 @jcjoo.zip

🔥🌸🏺JUNE 8🏺🌸🔥 🌸 We are debuting a new performance specifically for our GYOPO and diasporic fam and communities. Come watch us transmute our current collective rage into containers of care and resistance. And make sure to attend all the events in June curated by GYOPO. Not a program to be missed✨ 🥣 Hwa Records is a collective of Korean diasporic artists and healers—Roger Kim, Saewon Oh, C. Ryu, and Kayla Tange—exploring hwa-byung (fire sickness), a folk syndrome where suppressed anger manifests in the body. Through workshops and performances, they address racism, inherited trauma, and the lasting impact of the Korean War and Japanese imperialism. Their performances integrate meditation, storytelling, and musical play to release collective hwa, honoring and letting go of ancestral burdens. Hwa Records has performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco and 41 Ross Gallery and received funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among others. They seek to ease the pressures of liminal existence, creating space for healing and transformation.  — GYOPO and LA Phil Insight @laphil is pleased to announce its Seoul Festival programming, 𝓖𝓨𝓞𝓟𝓞 𝓓𝓲𝓪𝓼𝓹𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓬 𝓡𝓮𝓯𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓘𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼, 𝓢𝔂𝓶𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓲𝓾𝓶, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮 curated by GYOPO. Throughout Walt Disney Concert Hall experience some of the most innovative and important voices in Korean contemporary art, music and performance through video installations by @sirenjung and Kim Heecheon, a symposium co-curated by @sasamiashworth , and an afternoon of multidisciplinary performance co-curated by @h.h_joo and the premiere of new music by @stqpkiraradongjae June 3-10, 2025. Participating artists include: siren eun young jung @sirenjung Heecheon Kim SASAMI @sasamiashworth yuniya edi kwon @yuniya_xx NoSo @nosomusic Mindy Seu @mindyseu KIRARA @stqpkiraradongjae Sharon Chohi Kim @sharonchohikim Hwa Records @hwarecords Young Sun Han @youngsunart Ari Osterweis @pliantstarlets Will Johnson Liessa Son @sonliessa Learn more at laphil.com/insight and gyopo.us!

🔥Documentation of Hwa Records performing last April 2022 at 41.Ross Gallery in Chinatown San Francisco. ❤️‍🔥Hwa Records translates and mistranslates Hwa 화 as fire, pent-up emotion, rage, and flower. 🩸Through voice, movement, sound, and projection, Hwa Records creates immersive experimental performances exploring how historical record, memory, and lived experience may not always align with the complexities of migration, culture induced shame, and ancestral lineage. By searching for our own paths of becoming we embody our defiant definitions of what “Korean” and “American” means. Hwa Records invites the audiences to witness the rebirth, the transmutation of our HWA. Hwa Records has performed at Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco and 41.Ross Gallery. 🔥Hwa Records began when one of our facilitators was diagnosed with 화병 hwa-byung or “fire sickness”. Hwa-byung is defined as a culture-bound syndrome, mostly affecting women, and; a Korean folk syndrome attributed to the suppression of anger where pent up emotions manifest in the body as difficulty eating, sleeping, and breathing. While the diagnosis in South Korea occurs primarily in middle-age to older women suffering under a prevalently patriarchal society, through further research we found that hwa-byung in the United States could also be caused by displacement stresses such as balancing two cultures - in this case Korean and American. 🩸This gave birth to Hwa Records. Although not all Korean-Americans have hwa-byung, many experience some form of self-suppression and pent-up emotion from our collective experience as an immigrant community, navigating conflicts of culture, racism, and microaggressions in our daily lives. We created these workshops to share our methods of catharsis in hopes to gift another tool to our peoples to help release our hwa. ❤️‍🔥We are taking a little break in 2023 to allow the facilitators’ own Hwa to be released. We will be back in 2024. If you are looking to book us for a performance or workshops please contact us. 🔥Performers: Roger Kim, Saewon Oh, Caroline Yoo 🔥Videography: Huan Cheng

What Roger has been working on since we have been taking a break with Hwa Records. Genius, yes he is 🔥 Posted @withregram • @rodgepodgemusic Gesture controlled Robot gayageum. Flick plucks the strings, pulling down bends the string and raises the pitch This prototype is the third iteration of robot gayageum and and an evolution from the first two that i developed with @bingsungtaek last year #kinect #robotinstrument