James B. Pollack · 2017

Creature Watching History from the Canopy

116 BPMG minor2:04Ableton Live 9.2.115 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Creature Watching History from the Canopy" by James B. Pollack. 116 BPM, G minor, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 15 Ableton sample references. "Creature Watching History from the Canopy" 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: 116 BPM, G minor, 2:04.
  • Ableton source: project "jan25jam1_gibbon", Ableton Live 9.2.1, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 0 audio tracks, 9 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 113 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 27.
  • Ableton scan found 15 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys, FX.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Effectrix.
  • Listener mood tags: Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Dark.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
116 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
116.0
Key
G minor
Duration
2:04
Ableton project
jan25jam1_gibbon
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.2.1
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
15
Plugins
Effectrix
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 27
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 15 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Creature Watching History from the Canopy" 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: Creature Watching History from the Canopy, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Dark, Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys, FX, Lean Arrangement, Effectrix, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 116 BPM.

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