This city that bears your nickname… Op. 24 (Mok)
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‘This city that bears your nickname, that lane his shadow, this nook another him’s scent’. The title of this piece grew out of the composer’s contemplation on how the names of cities, streets, and roads often pass unnoticed — words we use without thought, stripped of the histories or affections they once carried. Yet for each of us, certain places hold private meanings — a name that recalls a voice, a street that keeps a memory, a corner that still belongs to someone once dear. The work is an emotional map of attachments and a meditation on love, memory, and distance: between those who stay and those who move on, between homeland and elsewhere, between one kind of intimacy and another.
