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A New Medium Begins
The story of a poet, an artistic experiment called Dust & Clay, and the birth of a new medium between poetry and music.
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Dust & Clay
Michael Teichberg’s published poetry reimagined across genres, languages, and cultures.
The artist
Michael Teichberg produces music as Dust & Clay based on his published poetry in the 2023 award-winning, Amazon #1 bestseller debut, ManuScrita: Poems on Life, Love, & the Nature of Reality.
What began as a creative experiment in the summer of 2025 has grown into a global catalog spanning genres, languages, and cultures and became the proof of concept behind Poetronica Records.
9albums released
190,000+streams
80+countries
An ongoing editorial series
Source Notes
The poems, stories, experiences, and creative decisions behind the music of Dust & Clay. Each note returns listeners to the source, then traces how the original work found another life through sound.
The origin of Dust & Clay
Covenant of Freedom: An AI-Collaboration Celebrating the Jewish-American Soul
How a family wedding, Jewish-American identity, poetry, and a lifelong instinct for experimentation became the concept album that helped begin Dust & Clay.
Poetry, grief, and memory
Love, Loss, and the Water Between
How a hopeful poem written twenty years ago became “Journey by Water,” then found a more intimate companion in “Loss Adjacent” after the death of a beloved cat.
An unexpected source
When Someone Finds the Words
How an unexpected equine session after the loss of a beloved cat became a poem, then two new tracks for The Misplaced Sessions: Volume II.
The latest story
I Thought I Had Forgotten
How a first WriteMiami workshop created the space to slow down, listen, and remember, then became a new poetronica track.