James B. Pollack · 2017

Two Hands Dealt from a Stranger Deck

120 BPMA# major1:56Ableton Live 9.522 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Two Hands Dealt from a Stranger Deck" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, A# major, Ableton Live 9.5, 22 Ableton sample references. "Two Hands Dealt from a Stranger Deck" 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: 120 BPM, A# major, 1:56.
  • Ableton source: project "aug27jam1_deuces", Ableton Live 9.5, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 4 audio tracks, 6 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 101 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 35.
  • Ableton scan found 22 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Plugin count: 2.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
120 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
120.0
Key
A# major
Duration
1:56
Ableton project
aug27jam1_deuces
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.5
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
22
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 35
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 22 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Two Hands Dealt from a Stranger Deck" 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: Two Hands Dealt from a Stranger Deck, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys, Lean Arrangement, Ableton Live 9.5, 120 BPM.

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