James B. Pollack · 2013

The Wanting Machine

125 BPMD# minor1:03Ableton Live 9.0.67 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "The Wanting Machine" by James B. Pollack. 125 BPM, D# minor, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 7 Ableton sample references. "The Wanting Machine" 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: 125 BPM, D# minor, 1:03.
  • Ableton source: project "nov18jam2", Ableton Live 9.0.6, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 4 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 276 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 24.
  • Ableton scan found 7 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Loops.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1.
  • Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
125 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
125.0
Key
D# minor
Duration
1:03
Ableton project
nov18jam2
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.6
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
7
Plugins
Sylenth1
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 24
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 7 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"The Wanting Machine" 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: The Wanting Machine, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 125 BPM.

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