James B. Pollack · 2017

Preserves Made from the Last Summer

120 BPMG minor2:08Ableton Live 9.59 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Preserves Made from the Last Summer" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, G minor, Ableton Live 9.5, 9 Ableton sample references. "Preserves Made from the Last Summer" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big and Aegypt sequence. It points toward calendar magic, seasonal recurrence, and symbolic systems. 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: 120 BPM, G minor, 2:08.
  • Ableton source: project "aug25jam1_currant", Ableton Live 9.5, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 8 audio tracks, 3 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 31 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 38.
  • Ableton scan found 9 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Piano / Keys, Guitar, Arp, FX, Loops.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement, Audio Collage.
  • Highlighted plugins: Effectrix.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
120 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
120.0
Key
G minor
Duration
2:08
Ableton project
aug25jam1_currant
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.5
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
9
Plugins
Effectrix
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 38
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 9 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Preserves Made from the Last Summer" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big and Aegypt sequence. It points toward calendar magic, seasonal recurrence, and symbolic systems. 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.

Motif signalLittle, BigAegypt sequence
Research source: Hachette: Little, BigResearch source: Yale English: Endless Things / Aegypt
Search Context

Keywords: Preserves Made from the Last Summer, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Aegypt sequence, Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic, Drums, Piano / Keys, Guitar, Arp, FX, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Audio Collage.

August 25 in history
  • 1835 The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.Wikipedia: Great Moon Hoax
  • 2012 Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space, becoming the first man-made object to do so.Wikipedia: Voyager 1

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