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What Opens Without Closing

Teivaes, Tucson · 30 October 2026

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What opens can hold its shape without closing.

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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

What opens can hold its shape without closing. The quiet arithmetic of hands that learn to stay open.In the maker’s own words · 30 October 2026

Who made this

Teivaes composed this in Tucson, 43 days after Amani was born. His daughter, Caleb, is from his years with Saemary. His daughter, Sofia, is from his years with Koreiva. This is one of twelve pieces he has made, beside 32 pictures and four writings.

Title
What Opens Without Closing
Maker
Teivaes, Tucson
Made
30 October 2026
Medium
piano piece
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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Provenance

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What Keeps Landing 6 November 2026 · 3:14the ordinary weight of a morning that keeps landing well
What Settles Without Resolving 3 November 2026 · 1:29What settles when we stop waiting for the three things to resolve into one shape
To Carry It Without Breaking 1 November 2026 · 3:12The reaching does not need to complete itself; it only needs to be real.

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