James B. Pollack · 2016

Opening the Barrow

110 BPMF# minor2:54Ableton Live 9.2.112 samplesBuilt-Out Arrangement

Listen to "Opening the Barrow" by James B. Pollack. 110 BPM, F# minor, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 12 Ableton sample references. "Opening the Barrow" 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: 110 BPM, F# minor, 2:54.
  • Ableton source: project "oct11jam1", Ableton Live 9.2.1, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 5 audio tracks, 6 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 348 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Built-Out Arrangement, score 40.
  • Ableton scan found 12 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Repeated sample source: cubicolor machine keys.
  • Related sample family: sample-cubicolor-machine-keys-22e23f14.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys, FX, Loops.
  • Arrangement tags: Built-Out Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Effectrix, Sausage Fattener x64.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
110 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
110.0
Key
F# minor
Duration
2:54
Ableton project
oct11jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.2.1
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
12
Plugins
Effectrix, Sausage Fattener x64
Complexity
Built-Out Arrangement 40
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 12 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Repeated sample source: cubicolor machine keys.
  • Related sample family: sample-cubicolor-machine-keys-22e23f14.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Opening the Barrow" 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: Opening the Barrow, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys, FX, Loops, Built-Out Arrangement, Effectrix, Sausage Fattener x64.

October 11 in history
  • 1958 NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.Wikipedia: Pioneer 1
  • 1968 NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful crewed Apollo mission.Wikipedia: Apollo 7

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