James B. Pollack · 2016

Otherwise Than It Has Been

110 BPMF minor1:18Ableton Live 9.2.124 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Otherwise Than It Has Been" by James B. Pollack. 110 BPM, F minor, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 24 Ableton sample references. "Otherwise Than It Has Been" 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: 110 BPM, F minor, 1:18.
Ableton source: project "aug17jam1", Ableton Live 9.2.1, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 8 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 343 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 37.
Ableton scan found 24 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, FX.
Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy.
Highlighted plugins: Effectrix.
Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

110 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

110.0

Key

F minor

Duration

1:18

Ableton project

aug17jam1

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.2.1

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Plugins

Effectrix

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 37

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 24 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Otherwise Than It Has Been" 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, Big Research source: Yale English: Endless Things / Aegypt Research source: John Crowley author site: Ka

Search Context

Keywords: Otherwise Than It Has Been, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, FX, Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy, Effectrix, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 110 BPM.

August 17 in history

1876 Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, the last opera in his Ring cycle, premieres at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.Wikipedia: Richard Wagner
1970 Soviet Union Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).Wikipedia: Venera