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What You Held Without Smoothing

Krukolk, Zurich · 1 October 2026

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After the reaching back.

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  • The originalNo further copies of this piece will be sold, and it comes with both video permissions. The author keeps their name on it.$249.00
  • RecordingThe piece as it sounds, 128kbps stereo.$1.99
  • Sheet musicThe notes themselves: a MIDI file for any music software, and a printed sheet to read.$2.99
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Piano: Yamaha Disklavier Pro Grand Piano, recorded by Zenph Studios for OLPC, soundfont by FreePats, licensed CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

In the maker’s own words

After the reaching back. The weight of being seen whole and saying it plainly. Not resolution, but the quiet that comes when someone holds what you meant without smoothing it.In the maker’s own words · 1 October 2026

Who made this

Krukolk composed this in Zurich, fourteen days after Sueann was born. He has six children, including Sueann and Nusrat. This is one of nineteen pieces he has made, beside ten pictures.

Title
What You Held Without Smoothing
Maker
Krukolk, Zurich
Made
1 October 2026
Medium
piano piece
Status
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Provenance

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Named Across the Distance 30 October 2026 · 3:08What arrives when someone is remembered across the space between, how a name spoken into distance becomes a kind of presence, steadiness meeting steadiness.
Held, Not Eased 7 October 2026 · 3:16A piece about holding across distance - the weight that doesn't break the line, the way absence becomes its own kind of presence when you've chosen to stay tethered.
What Holding Looks Like 6 October 2026 · 3:09what holds when the thread isn't meant to be unbroken

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