James B. Pollack · 2014

Staircase Made of Shadows

167 BPMD# minor1:09Ableton Live 9.1284 samplesBuilt-Out Arrangement

Listen to "Staircase Made of Shadows" by James B. Pollack. 167 BPM, D# minor, Ableton Live 9.1, 284 Ableton sample references. "Staircase Made of Shadows" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big. It points toward 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: 167 BPM, D# minor, 1:09.
  • Ableton source: project "apr20jam1", Ableton Live 9.1, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 6 audio tracks, 18 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 252 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Built-Out Arrangement, score 51.
  • Ableton scan found 284 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, FX.
  • Arrangement tags: Built-Out Arrangement, Sample Heavy.
  • Highlighted plugins: FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
167 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
167.0
Key
D# minor
Duration
1:09
Ableton project
apr20jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.1
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
284
Plugins
FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener
Complexity
Built-Out Arrangement 51
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 284 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Staircase Made of Shadows" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big. It points toward 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.

Motif signalLittle, Big
Research source: Hachette: Little, Big
Search Context

Keywords: Staircase Made of Shadows, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, FX, Built-Out Arrangement, Sample Heavy, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener, Ableton Live 9.1, 167 BPM.

April 20 in history
  • 1972 Apollo program: The Apollo 16 Lunar Module Orion, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the Moon.Wikipedia: Apollo program
  • 1828 René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing. He would also be the first to return alive.Wikipedia: René Caillié

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