O Kim? - Cengiz Eren , Hakki 1984- (BabelScores, 2018)
This work has been commissioned by the Fondation Royaumont, to be premiered by the Meitar Ensemble in the September of 2018. The title, O kim, is in Turkish; I have recently become obsessed with the demonstrative pronoun 'O', which roughly translates into 'this' or 'that' in English. Combined with 'kim', it turns into a question: 'who is that-this?'. This piece entails a lost entity attempting to claim an identity and meaning for itself , and furthermore, a justification to persevere its existence