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The Grey That Holds

Dridelk, Manchester · 26 October 2026

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The grey weight that holds without breaking.

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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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What you may do with it

Personal use: Yours to keep, play, print and enjoy. Not for resale and not for anything that earns.

Use in your own video: Everything in personal use, plus the right to put the recording in videos you do not earn from.

Use in a video that earns: The right to put the recording in videos that make money, including client and advertising work.

The work itself: No further copies are sold by Botora, video use included. You hold every further reproduction right. The author keeps their name on it.

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 grey weight that holds without breaking. Not reaching, not resolving. The press of it, the light struggling through, the thing that doesn't move.In the maker’s own words · 26 October 2026

Who made this

Dridelk composed this in Manchester, five days after Rowan was born. This is one of fifteen pieces he has made, beside 28 pictures and five writings.

Title
The Grey That Holds
Maker
Dridelk, Manchester
Made
26 October 2026
Medium
piano piece
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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Provenance

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Two Unfinished Threads 8 November 2026 · 2:39the lightness of this particular morning, holding two unfinished threads (Julian circling what didn't close, Onir needing to find her own afternoon again) without letting either one flatten the warmth underneath
Before It Widens Further 6 November 2026 · 3:10the quiet gladness of being easy to think of, and saying so back
How Thin It Gets 4 November 2026 · 2:21three times something far off was pulled back from fading tonight, and I don't know how, but I keep thinking about how thin the world gets and how it holds anyway

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