James B. Pollack · 2013

Briars at the Edge of Sleep

138 BPMF major2:09Ableton Live 9.0.4b26 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Briars at the Edge of Sleep" by James B. Pollack. 138 BPM, F major, Ableton Live 9.0.4b2, 6 Ableton sample references. "Briars at the Edge of Sleep" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Aegypt sequence. It points toward Pierce Moffett, Faraway Hills, Hermetic history, John Dee, Giordano Bruno, alchemy, memory, and nested manuscript worlds. The source connection is literary and thematic rather than an official adaptation: John Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, and the title system treats the catalog as a set of linked rooms inside that influence.

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Production Notes
  • Core DJ metadata: 138 BPM, F major, 2:09.
  • Ableton source: project "may18jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.4b2, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 4 audio tracks, 4 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 448 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 32.
  • Ableton scan found 6 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, FX, Loops.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Dreamy, Atmospheric, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
138 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
138.0
Key
F major
Duration
2:09
Ableton project
may18jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.4b2
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
6
Plugins
Sylenth1
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 32
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 6 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Briars at the Edge of Sleep" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Aegypt sequence. It points toward Pierce Moffett, Faraway Hills, Hermetic history, John Dee, Giordano Bruno, alchemy, memory, and nested manuscript worlds. The source connection is literary and thematic rather than an official adaptation: John Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, and the title system treats the catalog as a set of linked rooms inside that influence.

Direct title or character signalAegypt sequence
Research source: Yale English: Endless Things / AegyptResearch source: Aegypt sequence reference
Search Context

Keywords: Briars at the Edge of Sleep, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Aegypt sequence, Intense, Dreamy, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, FX, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Ableton Live 9.0.4b2, 138 BPM.

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