James B. Pollack · 2014

Staircase Made of Shadows

167 BPMD# minor1:09Ableton Live 9.1284 samplesBuilt-Out Arrangement

Listen to "Staircase Made of Shadows" by James B. Pollack. 167 BPM, D# minor, Ableton Live 9.1, 284 Ableton sample references. "Staircase Made of Shadows" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big. It points toward Edgewood as a many-housed house on the magical border of an otherworld. The source connection is literary and thematic rather than an official adaptation: John Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, and the title system treats the catalog as a set of linked rooms inside that influence.

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Production Notes

Core DJ metadata: 167 BPM, D# minor, 1:09.
Ableton source: project "apr20jam1", Ableton Live 9.1, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 6 audio tracks, 18 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 252 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Built-Out Arrangement, score 51.
Ableton scan found 284 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, FX.
Arrangement tags: Built-Out Arrangement, Sample Heavy.
Highlighted plugins: FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener.
Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

167 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

167.0

Key

D# minor

Duration

1:09

Ableton project

apr20jam1

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.1

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

284

Plugins

FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener

Complexity

Built-Out Arrangement 51

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 284 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Staircase Made of Shadows" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big. It points toward Edgewood as a many-housed house on the magical border of an otherworld. The source connection is literary and thematic rather than an official adaptation: John Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, and the title system treats the catalog as a set of linked rooms inside that influence.

Motif signalLittle, Big

Research source: Hachette: Little, Big

Search Context

Keywords: Staircase Made of Shadows, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, FX, Built-Out Arrangement, Sample Heavy, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener, Ableton Live 9.1, 167 BPM.

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