James B. Pollack · 2013

Sleeping Briar

116 BPMC minor1:24Ableton Live 9.0.64 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Sleeping Briar" by James B. Pollack. 116 BPM, C minor, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 4 Ableton sample references. "Sleeping Briar" 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.

Open in Full PlayerLicense This Track
Production Notes
  • Core DJ metadata: 116 BPM, C minor, 1:24.
  • Ableton source: project "nov21jam2", Ableton Live 9.0.6, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 4 audio tracks, 5 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 210 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 32.
  • Ableton scan found 4 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Effectrix.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
116 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
116.0
Key
C minor
Duration
1:24
Ableton project
nov21jam2
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.6
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
4
Plugins
Sylenth1, Effectrix
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 32
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 4 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Sleeping Briar" 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: Sleeping Briar, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic, Drums, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Effectrix, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 116 BPM.

November 21 in history
  • 1959 American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.Wikipedia: Alan Freed
  • 1877 Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.Wikipedia: Thomas Edison

© 2026 James B. Pollack. All rights reserved 2026.