James B. Pollack · 2015

Pierce Writing at His Desk

122 BPMF major2:55Ableton Live 9.0.42 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Pierce Writing at His Desk" by James B. Pollack. 122 BPM, F major, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 2 Ableton sample references. "Pierce Writing at His Desk" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Aegypt sequence. It points toward Pierce Moffett, Faraway Hills, Hermetic history, John Dee, Giordano Bruno, alchemy, memory, and nested manuscript worlds. 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, 2:55.
  • Ableton source: project "apr23jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 7 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 224 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 29.
  • Ableton scan found 2 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Zebra2.
  • 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
2:55
Ableton project
apr23jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.4
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
2
Plugins
Zebra2
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 29
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 2 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Pierce Writing at His Desk" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Aegypt sequence. It points toward Pierce Moffett, Faraway Hills, Hermetic history, John Dee, Giordano Bruno, alchemy, memory, and nested manuscript worlds. 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 signalAegypt sequence
Research source: Yale English: Endless Things / AegyptResearch source: Aegypt sequence reference
Search Context

Keywords: Pierce Writing at His Desk, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Aegypt sequence, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Lean Arrangement, Zebra2, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 122 BPM.

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