James B. Pollack · 2013

Sophie on the Stairs

128 BPME minor1:00Ableton Live 9.0.65 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Sophie on the Stairs" by James B. Pollack. 128 BPM, E minor, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 5 Ableton sample references. "Sophie on the Stairs" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big. It points toward Smoky Barnable, Daily Alice Drinkwater, Auberon, Sophie, Edgewood, the Drinkwater/Barnable family, and the great Tale and Edgewood as a many-housed house on the magical border of an otherworld. 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: 128 BPM, E minor, 1:00.
  • Ableton source: project "sep17jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.6, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 5 audio tracks, 3 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 30 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 29.
  • Ableton scan found 5 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Effectrix.
  • Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Dreamy, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
128 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
128.0
Key
E minor
Duration
1:00
Ableton project
sep17jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.6
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
5
Plugins
Sylenth1, Effectrix
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 29
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 5 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Sophie on the Stairs" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big. It points toward Smoky Barnable, Daily Alice Drinkwater, Auberon, Sophie, Edgewood, the Drinkwater/Barnable family, and the great Tale and Edgewood as a many-housed house on the magical border of an otherworld. 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.

Direct title or character signalLittle, Big
Research source: Hachette: Little, BigResearch source: Little, Big character reference
Search Context

Keywords: Sophie on the Stairs, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Driving, Intense, Dreamy, Melancholic, Drums, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Effectrix, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 128 BPM.

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