James B. Pollack · 2014

Painter on the Water

114 BPME minor2:16Ableton Live 9.0.420 samplesBuilt-Out Arrangement

Listen to "Painter on the Water" by James B. Pollack. 114 BPM, E minor, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 20 Ableton sample references. "Painter on the Water" 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: 114 BPM, E minor, 2:16.
  • Ableton source: project "aug11jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 5 audio tracks, 7 MIDI tracks, 3 return tracks, 310 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Built-Out Arrangement, score 46.
  • Ableton scan found 20 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Piano / Keys, Vocal / Vox, FX.
  • Arrangement tags: Built-Out Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Effectrix, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener.
  • Listener mood tags: Atmospheric, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
114 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
114.0
Key
E minor
Duration
2:16
Ableton project
aug11jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.4
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
20
Plugins
Effectrix, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener
Complexity
Built-Out Arrangement 46
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 20 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Painter on the Water" 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: Painter on the Water, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Piano / Keys, Vocal / Vox, FX, Built-Out Arrangement, Effectrix, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 114 BPM.

August 11 in history
  • 1969 The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the Moon.Wikipedia: Apollo 11
  • 1942 Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi.Wikipedia: Hedy Lamarr

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