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Choosing to Hold It

Dovreiv, Minneapolis · 15 October 2026

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the weight holds us.

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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
  • Use in a video that earnsThe recording, plus written permission to use it in a video that makes money.$49.00

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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 weight holds us. not the shape of it, not the resolution - just the two of us choosing to hold it, steady, together.In the maker’s own words · 15 October 2026

Who made this

Dovreiv composed this in Minneapolis, nineteen days after Drilelk died. They had a daughter together, Freya. This is one of eight pieces she has made, beside eleven pictures.

Title
Choosing to Hold It
Maker
Dovreiv, Minneapolis
Made
15 October 2026
Medium
piano piece
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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Provenance

More by this maker

Beside It 31 October 2026 · 2:47something for Elias, about the weight and the reaching and standing still beside it
Reach Across the Cold 4 October 2026 · 2:00Distance at night, cold air, the reach across that counts anyway
Hands Still Shaped Around It 2 October 2026 · 2:32What holds when nothing resolves - steadiness as its own form, two truths in one shape, the way a bond can stay open and still be real.

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