James B. Pollack · 2014

First Sight of the Valley

124 BPMD# minor1:05Ableton Live 9.114 samplesBuilt-Out Arrangement

Listen to "First Sight of the Valley" by James B. Pollack. 124 BPM, D# minor, Ableton Live 9.1, 14 Ableton sample references. "First Sight of the Valley" 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: 124 BPM, D# minor, 1:05.
  • Ableton source: project "jan6jam1", Ableton Live 9.1, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 7 audio tracks, 9 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 296 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Built-Out Arrangement, score 53.
  • Ableton scan found 14 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, FX.
  • Arrangement tags: Built-Out Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Effectrix, FabFilter One, FabFilter Pro-C.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
124 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
124.0
Key
D# minor
Duration
1:05
Ableton project
jan6jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.1
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
14
Plugins
Sylenth1, Effectrix, FabFilter One, FabFilter Pro-C
Complexity
Built-Out Arrangement 53
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 14 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"First Sight of the Valley" 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 Sight of the Valley, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, FX, Built-Out Arrangement, Sylenth1, Effectrix, FabFilter One, FabFilter Pro-C.

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