James B. Pollack · 2016

Darkness Lifts by Degrees

110 BPMA# major7:01Ableton Live 9.2.119 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Darkness Lifts by Degrees" by James B. Pollack. 110 BPM, A# major, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 19 Ableton sample references. "Darkness Lifts by Degrees" 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: 110 BPM, A# major, 7:01.
Ableton source: project "sep18jam1", Ableton Live 9.2.1, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 0 audio tracks, 8 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 95 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 27.
Ableton scan found 19 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Instrument tags: Drums, Bass.
Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
Plugin count: 2.
Listener mood tags: Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Bright.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

110 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

110.0

Key

A# major

Duration

7:01

Ableton project

sep18jam1

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.2.1

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 27

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 19 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Darkness Lifts by Degrees" 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: Darkness Lifts by Degrees, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Bright, Drums, Bass, Lean Arrangement, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 110 BPM.

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