James B. Pollack · 2014

Whispered Theorems in a Darkened Room

120 BPMF minor3:18Ableton Live 9.1121 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Whispered Theorems in a Darkened Room" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, F minor, Ableton Live 9.1, 121 Ableton sample references. "Whispered Theorems in a Darkened Room" 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: 120 BPM, F minor, 3:18.
  • Ableton source: project "may19jam1", Ableton Live 9.1, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 3 audio tracks, 8 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 216 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 39.
  • Ableton scan found 121 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Piano / Keys, Loops.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy.
  • Highlighted plugins: FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
120 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
120.0
Key
F minor
Duration
3:18
Ableton project
may19jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.1
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
121
Plugins
FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 39
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 121 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Whispered Theorems in a Darkened Room" 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: Whispered Theorems in a Darkened Room, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic, Drums, Piano / Keys, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener, Ableton Live 9.1, 120 BPM.

May 19 in history
  • 1961 Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).Wikipedia: Venera program
  • 1996 Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on mission STS-77.Wikipedia: Space Shuttle program

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