James B. Pollack · 2014

First Light on the Manuscript Pages

120 BPMC minor2:32Ableton Live 9.138 samplesBuilt-Out Arrangement

Listen to "First Light on the Manuscript Pages" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, C minor, Ableton Live 9.1, 38 Ableton sample references. "First Light on the Manuscript Pages" 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, 2:32.
  • Ableton source: project "may17jam1", Ableton Live 9.1, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 3 audio tracks, 20 MIDI tracks, 3 return tracks, 207 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Built-Out Arrangement, score 43.
  • Ableton scan found 38 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys, Strings, Arp.
  • Arrangement tags: Built-Out Arrangement, Sample Heavy.
  • Highlighted plugins: SausageFattener.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
120 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
120.0
Key
C minor
Duration
2:32
Ableton project
may17jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.1
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
38
Plugins
SausageFattener
Complexity
Built-Out Arrangement 43
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 38 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"First Light on the Manuscript Pages" 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: First Light on the Manuscript Pages, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys, Strings, Arp, Built-Out Arrangement, Sample Heavy, SausageFattener.

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