James B. Pollack · 2013

Lantern Held Against the Dark

125 BPME major2:08Ableton Live 9.16 samplesBuilt-Out Arrangement

Listen to "Lantern Held Against the Dark" by James B. Pollack. 125 BPM, E major, Ableton Live 9.1, 6 Ableton sample references, samples including Foo Fighters - Everlong (Acapella).wav. "Lantern Held Against the Dark" is part of James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system rather than a literal one-to-one citation on this page. The connection is to the way Crowley's fiction handles world-building, layered time, memory, houses, thresholds, and hidden structure. Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, so these titles also mark a personal artistic lineage, not only a literary reference.

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Production Notes
  • Core DJ metadata: 125 BPM, E major, 2:08.
  • Ableton source: project "dec17jam1", Ableton Live 9.1, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 9 audio tracks, 10 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 349 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Built-Out Arrangement, score 56.
  • Ableton scan found 6 sample references.
  • Named vocal/sample sources: Foo Fighters - Everlong (Acapella).wav, Foo Fighters - Everlong (Acapella).mp3.
  • Repeated sample source: foo fighters everlong.
  • Related sample family: sample-foo-fighters-everlong-cb376a97.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys, Vocal / Vox, FX.
  • Arrangement tags: Built-Out Arrangement, Audio Collage.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Effectrix, WOW.
  • Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
125 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
125.0
Key
E major
Duration
2:08
Ableton project
dec17jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.1
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
6
Vocal samples
Foo Fighters - Everlong (Acapella).wav, Foo Fighters - Everlong (Acapella).mp3
Plugins
Sylenth1, Effectrix, WOW
Complexity
Built-Out Arrangement 56
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 6 sample references.
  • Named vocal/sample sources: Foo Fighters - Everlong (Acapella).wav, Foo Fighters - Everlong (Acapella).mp3.
  • Repeated sample source: foo fighters everlong.
  • Related sample family: sample-foo-fighters-everlong-cb376a97.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Lantern Held Against the Dark" is part of James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system rather than a literal one-to-one citation on this page. The connection is to the way Crowley's fiction handles world-building, layered time, memory, houses, thresholds, and hidden structure. Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, so these titles also mark a personal artistic lineage, not only a literary reference.

Archive-level title systemJohn Crowley's fiction
Research source: Hachette: Little, BigResearch source: Yale English: Endless Things / AegyptResearch source: John Crowley author site: Ka
Search Context

Keywords: Lantern Held Against the Dark, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys, Vocal / Vox, FX, Built-Out Arrangement, Audio Collage, Sylenth1.

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