James B. Pollack · 2013

Heat Engine Humming

128 BPMC minor1:01Ableton Live 9.0.2b33 samplesMinimal Sketch

Listen to "Heat Engine Humming" by James B. Pollack. 128 BPM, C minor, Ableton Live 9.0.2b3, 3 Ableton sample references. "Heat Engine Humming" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Engine Summer. It points toward Engine Summer's far-future remnants of the old technological world. 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: 128 BPM, C minor, 1:01.
Ableton source: project "march27jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.2b3, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 0 audio tracks, 4 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 186 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Minimal Sketch, score 18.
Ableton scan found 3 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Instrument tags: Drums, Bass.
Arrangement tags: Minimal Sketch.
Highlighted plugins: Massive, FM8.
Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Dreamy, Melancholic.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

128 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

128.0

Key

C minor

Duration

1:01

Ableton project

march27jam1

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.0.2b3

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Plugins

Massive, FM8

Complexity

Minimal Sketch 18

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 3 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Heat Engine Humming" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Engine Summer. It points toward Engine Summer's far-future remnants of the old technological world. 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 signalEngine Summer

Research source: Subterranean Press: Engine Summer

Search Context

Keywords: Heat Engine Humming, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Engine Summer, Driving, Intense, Dreamy, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, Minimal Sketch, Massive, FM8, Ableton Live 9.0.2b3, 128 BPM.

March 27 in history

1871 The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.Wikipedia: Scotland
1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.Wikipedia: Juan Ponce de León