James B. Pollack · 2017

Wings That Remember Being Caterpillars

120 BPMF minor2:08Ableton Live 9.535 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Wings That Remember Being Caterpillars" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, F minor, Ableton Live 9.5, 35 Ableton sample references. "Wings That Remember Being Caterpillars" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Beasts, Little, Big, Ka, and Aegypt sequence. It points toward Crowley's recurring animal, bird, and metamorphic imagery and memory, layered time, and stories moving across generations. 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, F minor, 2:08.
  • Ableton source: project "march12jam1_butterflies", Ableton Live 9.5, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 0 audio tracks, 6 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 50 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 22.
  • Ableton scan found 35 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, Strings.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy.
  • Plugin count: 0.
  • Listener mood tags: Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
120 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
120.0
Key
F minor
Duration
2:08
Ableton project
march12jam1_butterflies
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.5
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
35
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 22
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 35 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Wings That Remember Being Caterpillars" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Beasts, Little, Big, Ka, and Aegypt sequence. It points toward Crowley's recurring animal, bird, and metamorphic imagery and memory, layered time, and stories moving across generations. 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 signalBeastsLittle, BigKaAegypt sequence
Research source: Beasts referenceResearch source: Hachette: Little, BigResearch source: John Crowley author site: KaResearch source: Yale English: Endless Things / Aegypt
Search Context

Keywords: Wings That Remember Being Caterpillars, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Beasts, Ka, Aegypt sequence, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, Strings, Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy, Ableton Live 9.5, 120 BPM.

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