James B. Pollack · 2015

Under the Oak Where Stories Begin

122 BPMA minor2:55Ableton Live 9.0.410 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Under the Oak Where Stories Begin" by James B. Pollack. 122 BPM, A minor, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 10 Ableton sample references, samples including 22 RSS-VOX.wav. "Under the Oak Where Stories Begin" is part of James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system rather than a literal one-to-one citation on this page. The connection is to the way Crowley's fiction handles world-building, layered time, memory, houses, thresholds, and hidden structure. Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, so these titles also mark a personal artistic lineage, not only a literary reference.

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Production Notes
  • Core DJ metadata: 122 BPM, A minor, 2:55.
  • Ableton source: project "jul10jam2", Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 6 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 579 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 34.
  • Ableton scan found 10 sample references.
  • Named vocal/sample sources: 22 RSS-VOX.wav, 21 RSS-VOX.wav, 24 RSS-VOX.wav, 20 RSS-VOX.wav, 19 RSS-VOX.wav, 18 RSS-VOX.wav, 25 RSS-VOX.wav, 23 RSS-VOX.wav.
  • Repeated sample source: 18 rss vox.
  • Related sample family: sample-18-rss-vox-7ec66d30.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Vocal / Vox, Loops.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Zebra2.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
122 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
122.0
Key
A minor
Duration
2:55
Ableton project
jul10jam2
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.4
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
10
Vocal samples
22 RSS-VOX.wav, 21 RSS-VOX.wav, 24 RSS-VOX.wav, 20 RSS-VOX.wav, 19 RSS-VOX.wav, 18 RSS-VOX.wav, 25 RSS-VOX.wav, 23 RSS-VOX.wav
Plugins
Sylenth1, Zebra2
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 34
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 10 sample references.
  • Named vocal/sample sources: 22 RSS-VOX.wav, 21 RSS-VOX.wav, 24 RSS-VOX.wav, 20 RSS-VOX.wav, 19 RSS-VOX.wav, 18 RSS-VOX.wav, 25 RSS-VOX.wav, 23 RSS-VOX.wav.
  • Repeated sample source: 18 rss vox.
  • Related sample family: sample-18-rss-vox-7ec66d30.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Under the Oak Where Stories Begin" is part of James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system rather than a literal one-to-one citation on this page. The connection is to the way Crowley's fiction handles world-building, layered time, memory, houses, thresholds, and hidden structure. Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, so these titles also mark a personal artistic lineage, not only a literary reference.

Archive-level title systemJohn Crowley's fiction
Research source: Hachette: Little, BigResearch source: Yale English: Endless Things / AegyptResearch source: John Crowley author site: Ka
Search Context

Keywords: Under the Oak Where Stories Begin, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic, Drums, Vocal / Vox, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Zebra2, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 122 BPM.

July 10 in history
  • 1999 In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.Wikipedia: United States
  • 1806 The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.Wikipedia: Vellore Mutiny

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