James B. Pollack · 2014

Shortest Day and What It Promises

122 BPMG# major1:51Ableton Live 9.0.45 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Shortest Day and What It Promises" by James B. Pollack. 122 BPM, G# major, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 5 Ableton sample references. "Shortest Day and What It Promises" 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: 122 BPM, G# major, 1:51.
Ableton source: project "dec21jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 5 audio tracks, 5 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 223 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 37.
Ableton scan found 5 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Instrument tags: Drums, FX, Loops.
Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Zebra2, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener.
Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

122 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

122.0

Key

G# major

Duration

1:51

Ableton project

dec21jam1

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.0.4

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Plugins

Sylenth1, Zebra2, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 37

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 5 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Shortest Day and What It Promises" 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: Shortest Day and What It Promises, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, FX, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Zebra2, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener.

December 21 in history

1968 Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.Wikipedia: Apollo program
1879 the fictional character of Nora Helmer is first portrayed by Betty Hennings at a showing of A Doll's House at the Royal Danish Theatre.Wikipedia: Nora Helmer