James B. Pollack · 2015

Mnemonic Staircase

125 BPMF# minor1:32Ableton Live 9.0.44 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Mnemonic Staircase" by James B. Pollack. 125 BPM, F# minor, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4 Ableton sample references, samples including ODESZA Feat. Zyra - Say My Name - (Studio Acapella).wav. "Mnemonic Staircase" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big, Aegypt sequence, and Ka. It points toward Edgewood as a many-housed house on the magical border of an otherworld and memory, layered time, and stories moving across generations. 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: 125 BPM, F# minor, 1:32.
Ableton source: project "feb7jam3", Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 5 audio tracks, 2 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 0 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 25.
Ableton scan found 4 sample references.
Named vocal/sample source: ODESZA Feat. Zyra - Say My Name - (Studio Acapella).wav.
Repeated sample source: odesza feat. zyra say my name.
Related sample family: sample-odesza-feat-zyra-say-my-name-f92bd45d.
Instrument tags: Drums, Vocal / Vox, Loops.
Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
Plugin count: 0.
Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Melancholic.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

125 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

125.0

Key

F# minor

Duration

1:32

Ableton project

feb7jam3

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.0.4

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Vocal samples

ODESZA Feat. Zyra - Say My Name - (Studio Acapella).wav

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 25

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 4 sample references.
Named vocal/sample source: ODESZA Feat. Zyra - Say My Name - (Studio Acapella).wav.
Repeated sample source: odesza feat. zyra say my name.
Related sample family: sample-odesza-feat-zyra-say-my-name-f92bd45d.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Mnemonic Staircase" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big, Aegypt sequence, and Ka. It points toward Edgewood as a many-housed house on the magical border of an otherworld and memory, layered time, and stories moving across generations. 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, BigAegypt sequenceKa

Research source: Hachette: Little, Big Research source: Yale English: Endless Things / Aegypt Research source: John Crowley author site: Ka

Search Context

Keywords: Mnemonic Staircase, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Aegypt sequence, Ka, Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Vocal / Vox, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 125 BPM.

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