James B. Pollack · 2016

Otherwise Than It Has Been

110 BPMF minor1:18Ableton Live 9.2.124 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Otherwise Than It Has Been" by James B. Pollack. 110 BPM, F minor, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 24 Ableton sample references. "Otherwise Than It Has Been" 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, F minor, 1:18.
  • Ableton source: project "aug17jam1", Ableton Live 9.2.1, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 8 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 343 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 37.
  • Ableton scan found 24 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, FX.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy.
  • Highlighted plugins: Effectrix.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
110 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
110.0
Key
F minor
Duration
1:18
Ableton project
aug17jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.2.1
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
24
Plugins
Effectrix
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 37
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 24 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Otherwise Than It Has Been" 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: Otherwise Than It Has Been, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, FX, Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy, Effectrix, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 110 BPM.

August 17 in history
  • 1876 Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, the last opera in his Ring cycle, premieres at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.Wikipedia: Richard Wagner
  • 1970 Soviet Union Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).Wikipedia: Venera

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