James B. Pollack · 2013

Pennyroyal Grief

125 BPMG minor1:03Ableton Live 9.0.62 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Pennyroyal Grief" by James B. Pollack. 125 BPM, G minor, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 2 Ableton sample references. "Pennyroyal Grief" 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, G minor, 1:03.
  • Ableton source: project "nov12jam3", Ableton Live 9.0.6, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 3 audio tracks, 3 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 148 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 25.
  • Ableton scan found 2 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, FabFilter Twin 2, WOW.
  • Listener mood tags: Driving, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
125 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
125.0
Key
G minor
Duration
1:03
Ableton project
nov12jam3
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.6
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
2
Plugins
Sylenth1, FabFilter Twin 2, WOW
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 25
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 2 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Pennyroyal Grief" 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: Pennyroyal Grief, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Driving, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, FabFilter Twin 2, WOW, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 125 BPM.

November 12 in history
  • 1980 The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.Wikipedia: NASA
  • 1981 Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a crewed spacecraft is launched into space twice.Wikipedia: Space Shuttle program

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