James B. Pollack · 2016

Cold Reckoning

120 BPMD minor3:05Ableton Live 8.3.45 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Cold Reckoning" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, D minor, Ableton Live 8.3.4, 5 Ableton sample references. "Cold Reckoning" 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, D minor, 3:05.
  • Ableton source: project "dec7jam1", Ableton Live 8.3.4, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 1 audio track, 6 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 202 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 24.
  • Ableton scan found 5 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
120 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
120.0
Key
D minor
Duration
3:05
Ableton project
dec7jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 8.3.4
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
5
Plugins
Sylenth1
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 24
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 5 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Cold Reckoning" 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: Cold Reckoning, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic, Drums, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Ableton Live 8.3.4, 120 BPM.

December 7 in history
  • 1930 W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television advertisement in the United States, for I.J. Fox Furriers, which also sponsored the radio show.Wikipedia: W1XAV
  • 1732 The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.Wikipedia: Royal Opera House

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