James B. Pollack · 2013

Shimmering at the Pond's Edge

128 BPMF major1:16Ableton Live 9.0.53 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Shimmering at the Pond's Edge" by James B. Pollack. 128 BPM, F major, Ableton Live 9.0.5, 3 Ableton sample references. "Shimmering at the Pond's Edge" 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: 128 BPM, F major, 1:16.
  • Ableton source: project "jul28jam2", Ableton Live 9.0.5, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 3 audio tracks, 3 MIDI tracks, 3 return tracks, 118 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 27.
  • Ableton scan found 3 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, FX.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Zebra2.
  • Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
128 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
128.0
Key
F major
Duration
1:16
Ableton project
jul28jam2
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.5
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
3
Plugins
Sylenth1, Zebra2
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 27
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 3 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Shimmering at the Pond's Edge" 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: Shimmering at the Pond's Edge, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, FX, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Zebra2, Ableton Live 9.0.5, 128 BPM.

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