James B. Pollack · 2015

Where Black Birds Convene

64 BPME minor3:15Ableton Live 9.0.45 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Where Black Birds Convene" by James B. Pollack. 64 BPM, E minor, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 5 Ableton sample references. "Where Black Birds Convene" 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: 64 BPM, E minor, 3:15.
Ableton source: project "aug3jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 4 audio tracks, 3 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 147 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 28.
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, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener.
Listener mood tags: Driving, Dreamy, Melancholic, Dark.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

64 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

64.0

Key

E minor

Duration

3:15

Ableton project

aug3jam1

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.0.4

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Plugins

Sylenth1, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 28

Samples and Sources

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

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Where Black Birds Convene" 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: Where Black Birds Convene, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Driving, Dreamy, Melancholic, Dark, Drums, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 64 BPM.

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