James B. Pollack · 2014

Gate That Opens Only in the Story

125 BPMC# minor1:04Ableton Live 9.16 samplesBuilt-Out Arrangement

Listen to "Gate That Opens Only in the Story" by James B. Pollack. 125 BPM, C# minor, Ableton Live 9.1, 6 Ableton sample references, samples including 07 Above & Beyond Ft. Richard Bedford - Thing Called Love (Acapella).mp3. "Gate That Opens Only in the Story" 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, C# minor, 1:04.
  • Ableton source: project "march12jam1", Ableton Live 9.1, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 9 audio tracks, 17 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 40 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Built-Out Arrangement, score 49.
  • Ableton scan found 6 sample references.
  • Named vocal/sample source: 07 Above & Beyond Ft. Richard Bedford - Thing Called Love (Acapella).mp3.
  • Repeated sample source: 07 above & beyond ft. richard bedford thing called love.
  • Related sample family: sample-07-above-beyond-ft-richard-bedfo-26ab5baa.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, Vocal / Vox, FX.
  • Arrangement tags: Built-Out Arrangement, Audio Collage.
  • Highlighted plugins: SausageFattener.
  • Listener mood tags: Driving, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
125 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
125.0
Key
C# minor
Duration
1:04
Ableton project
march12jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.1
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
6
Vocal samples
07 Above & Beyond Ft. Richard Bedford - Thing Called Love (Acapella).mp3
Plugins
SausageFattener
Complexity
Built-Out Arrangement 49
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 6 sample references.
  • Named vocal/sample source: 07 Above & Beyond Ft. Richard Bedford - Thing Called Love (Acapella).mp3.
  • Repeated sample source: 07 above & beyond ft. richard bedford thing called love.
  • Related sample family: sample-07-above-beyond-ft-richard-bedfo-26ab5baa.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Gate That Opens Only in the Story" 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: Gate That Opens Only in the Story, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Driving, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, Vocal / Vox, FX, Built-Out Arrangement, Audio Collage, SausageFattener, Ableton Live 9.1.

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