James B. Pollack · 2015

Oakley Rising on a Column of Air

122 BPMF major1:41Ableton Live 9.1.21 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Oakley Rising on a Column of Air" by James B. Pollack. 122 BPM, F major, Ableton Live 9.1.2, 1 Ableton sample references. "Oakley Rising on a Column of Air" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr. It points toward Dar Oakley, named crowhood, impossible lives and deaths, and repeated descents into the land of the dead. 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: 122 BPM, F major, 1:41.
  • Ableton source: project "jun3jam1", Ableton Live 9.1.2, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 4 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 42 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 21.
  • Ableton scan found 1 sample reference.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: FabFilter Twin 2.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
122 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
122.0
Key
F major
Duration
1:41
Ableton project
jun3jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.1.2
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
1
Plugins
FabFilter Twin 2
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 21
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 1 sample reference.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Oakley Rising on a Column of Air" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr. It points toward Dar Oakley, named crowhood, impossible lives and deaths, and repeated descents into the land of the dead. 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 Ymr
Research source: John Crowley author site: KaResearch source: Simon & Schuster: Ka
Search Context

Keywords: Oakley Rising on a Column of Air, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Lean Arrangement, FabFilter Twin 2, Ableton Live 9.1.2, 122 BPM.

June 3 in history
  • 1965 The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.Wikipedia: Gemini 4
  • 1098 After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch.Wikipedia: First Crusade

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