James B. Pollack · 2016

Emperor Rudolf's Clockwork Menagerie

122 BPMG major3:24Ableton Live 9.2.116 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Emperor Rudolf's Clockwork Menagerie" by James B. Pollack. 122 BPM, G major, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 16 Ableton sample references. "Emperor Rudolf's Clockwork Menagerie" 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: 122 BPM, G major, 3:24.
Ableton source: project "jan16jam1", Ableton Live 9.2.1, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 5 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 252 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 30.
Ableton scan found 16 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Instrument tags: Drums, Bass.
Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
Plugin count: 3.
Listener mood tags: Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Dark.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

122 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

122.0

Key

G major

Duration

3:24

Ableton project

jan16jam1

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.2.1

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 30

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 16 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Emperor Rudolf's Clockwork Menagerie" 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, Big Research source: Yale English: Endless Things / Aegypt Research source: John Crowley author site: Ka

Search Context

Keywords: Emperor Rudolf's Clockwork Menagerie, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Dark, Drums, Bass, Lean Arrangement, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 122 BPM.

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