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Dust & Clay

Michael Teichberg’s published poetry reimagined across genres, languages, and cultures.

Michael Teichberg, founder and artist behind Dust and Clay

The artist

Dust and Clay

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
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Electronic press kit

Dust & Clay
Artist Materials

A concise biography, current milestones, music, press coverage, approved images, and contact information for media, programmers, and collaborators.

Official short bio

Dust & Clay is the poetronica project of award-winning published poet Michael Teichberg, founder of Poetronica Records. Beginning with poetry from his 2023 award-winning, Amazon #1 bestseller debut, ManuScrita: Poems on Life, Love, & the Nature of Reality, the project reimagines original poetry as immersive music across genres, languages, and cultures.

Launched as a creative experiment in the summer of 2025, Dust & Clay became the proof of concept behind Poetronica Records and has grown to nine albums, more than 190,000 streams, and listeners in over 80 countries.

Press, booking & collaborations

Contact Poetronica Records

founder@poetronicarecords.com(305) 280-2280

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.

Source Note 001Founding EssayPoetronica Records

Begin here

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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Source Note 002August 18, 2025Covenant of Freedom

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.

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Source Note 003September 3, 2026Love, loss, and memory

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.

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Source Note 004September 5, 2026Grief and healing

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.

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Source Note 005September 7, 2026WriteMiami

From workshop to song

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.

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Source Note 006September 28, 2026Covenant of Freedom

From poem to track

Wandering Ruminations

How “Concerns of the Wandering Thinker,” an early poem published in ManuScrita, became a Dust & Clay track.

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Source Note 007October 21, 2026Consciousness and voice

The latest story

I Am Not the Radio

How a YouTube comment about consciousness inspired a poem, then became the first Dust & Clay track created using Michael Teichberg’s own voice with AI tools.

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