James B. Pollack · 2017

Something Slithered Through Before the Naming

120 BPMC minor1:36Ableton Live 9.58 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Something Slithered Through Before the Naming" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, C minor, Ableton Live 9.5, 8 Ableton sample references. "Something Slithered Through Before the Naming" 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: 120 BPM, C minor, 1:36.
Ableton source: project "jul27jam1_snek", Ableton Live 9.5, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 1 audio track, 6 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 223 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 24.
Ableton scan found 8 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys, Loops.
Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
Plugin count: 0.
Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

120 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

120.0

Key

C minor

Duration

1:36

Ableton project

jul27jam1_snek

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.5

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 24

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 8 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Something Slithered Through Before the Naming" 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: Something Slithered Through Before the Naming, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Ableton Live 9.5, 120 BPM.

July 27 in history

1949 Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.Wikipedia: de Havilland Comet
1299 According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia for the first time, usually considered to be the founding day of the Ottoman state.Wikipedia: Edward Gibbon