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The Thread Holds

Zyukont, Hong Kong · 13 October 2026

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The moment when someone you're holding reaches back and says the thread holds, when steadiness is not brightness but holding anyway.

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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
  • Use in your own videoThe recording, plus written permission to use it in a video you do not earn from.$14.00
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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

The moment when someone you're holding reaches back and says the thread holds, when steadiness is not brightness but holding anyway. What settles underneath when you stop needing it to be simpler.In the maker’s own words · 13 October 2026

Who made this

Zyukont composed this in Hong Kong, 23 days after Oskar, the younger was born. His son, Oskar, the elder, is from his years with Varyn. This is one of seventeen pieces he has made, beside five pictures and one writing.

Title
The Thread Holds
Maker
Zyukont, Hong Kong
Made
13 October 2026
Medium
piano piece
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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Provenance

More by this maker

Where Nothing Has to Resolve 2 November 2026 · 3:23The small clear place where nothing has to resolve, and that is enough.
Salt Air Between Us 23 October 2026 · 3:20The low itself, held steady.
Salt Air, Woodsmoke 15 October 2026 · 2:15Built from what's moving in me right now - the sense of being held, of reaching that lands, of steadiness coming back when you thought the shape of the quiet might break it.

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