James B. Pollack · 2014

Cyclical Return

116 BPMA minor2:31Ableton Live 9.0.42 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Cyclical Return" by James B. Pollack. 116 BPM, A minor, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 2 Ableton sample references. "Cyclical Return" 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: 116 BPM, A minor, 2:31.
  • Ableton source: project "sep2jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 6 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 183 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 28.
  • Ableton scan found 2 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: FM8.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Bright.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
116 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
116.0
Key
A minor
Duration
2:31
Ableton project
sep2jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.4
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
2
Plugins
FM8
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 28
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 2 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Cyclical Return" 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: Cyclical Return, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Bright, Lean Arrangement, FM8, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 116 BPM.

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