James B. Pollack · 2013

Where the Border Used to Be

120 BPMF minor1:14Ableton Live 8.45 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Where the Border Used to Be" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, F minor, Ableton Live 8.4, 5 Ableton sample references. "Where the Border Used to Be" 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: 120 BPM, F minor, 1:14.
  • Ableton source: project "march11jam1", Ableton Live 8.4, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 5 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 326 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 29.
  • Ableton scan found 5 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, FX, Loops.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Effectrix, Massive.
  • Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
120 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
120.0
Key
F minor
Duration
1:14
Ableton project
march11jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 8.4
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
5
Plugins
Sylenth1, Effectrix, Massive
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 29
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 5 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Where the Border Used to Be" 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: Where the Border Used to Be, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, FX, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Effectrix, Massive.

March 11 in history
  • 2008 Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-123, carrying the first component of the Japanese Kibō module to the International Space Station.Wikipedia: Space Shuttle Endeavour
  • 1343 Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last Bishop of Prague (3 March 1343 O.S.), and, a year later, the first Archbishop of Prague.Wikipedia: Arnošt of Pardubice

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