James B. Pollack · 2015

Bright Ka in High Summer

72 BPMD# major3:11Ableton Live 9.0.422 samplesBuilt-Out Arrangement

Listen to "Bright Ka in High Summer" by James B. Pollack. 72 BPM, D# major, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 22 Ableton sample references, samples including 13 VOCALS.wav. "Bright Ka in High Summer" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, Little, Big, and Aegypt sequence. It points toward Ka as the crow realm and a bird-haunted meditation on memory, death, and storytelling and calendar magic, seasonal recurrence, and symbolic systems. 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: 72 BPM, D# major, 3:11.
  • Ableton source: project "JUL24JAM1", Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 12 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 1039 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Built-Out Arrangement, score 47.
  • Ableton scan found 22 sample references.
  • Named vocal/sample sources: 13 VOCALS.wav, 25 VOCALS.wav.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Vocal / Vox, Loops.
  • Arrangement tags: Built-Out Arrangement, Dense MIDI.
  • Highlighted plugins: Zebra2, SausageFattener.
  • Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
72 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
72.0
Key
D# major
Duration
3:11
Ableton project
JUL24JAM1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.4
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
22
Vocal samples
13 VOCALS.wav, 25 VOCALS.wav
Plugins
Zebra2, SausageFattener
Complexity
Built-Out Arrangement 47
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 22 sample references.
  • Named vocal/sample sources: 13 VOCALS.wav, 25 VOCALS.wav.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Bright Ka in High Summer" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, Little, Big, and Aegypt sequence. It points toward Ka as the crow realm and a bird-haunted meditation on memory, death, and storytelling and calendar magic, seasonal recurrence, and symbolic systems. 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.

Direct title or character signalKa: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of YmrLittle, BigAegypt sequence
Research source: John Crowley author site: KaResearch source: Simon & Schuster: KaResearch source: Hachette: Little, BigResearch source: Yale English: Endless Things / Aegypt
Search Context

Keywords: Bright Ka in High Summer, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, Aegypt sequence, Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Vocal / Vox, Loops, Built-Out Arrangement, Dense MIDI, Zebra2, SausageFattener.

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