James B. Pollack · 2017

Joy Without Reason or Season

130 BPMF# minor3:58Ableton Live 9.56 samplesBuilt-Out Arrangement

Listen to "Joy Without Reason or Season" by James B. Pollack. 130 BPM, F# minor, Ableton Live 9.5, 6 Ableton sample references. "Joy Without Reason or Season" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big and Aegypt sequence. It points toward calendar magic, seasonal recurrence, and symbolic systems. The source connection is literary and thematic rather than an official adaptation: John Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, and the title system treats the catalog as a set of linked rooms inside that influence.

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Production Notes

Core DJ metadata: 130 BPM, F# minor, 3:58.
Ableton source: project "march31jam1_blissfull", Ableton Live 9.5, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 8 audio tracks, 4 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 120 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Built-Out Arrangement, score 43.
Ableton scan found 6 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Instrument tags: Drums, Piano / Keys, Vocal / Vox.
Arrangement tags: Built-Out Arrangement, Audio Collage.
Highlighted plugins: Effectrix, Sausage Fattener x64.
Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Melancholic.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

130 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

130.0

Key

F# minor

Duration

3:58

Ableton project

march31jam1_blissfull

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.5

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Plugins

Effectrix, Sausage Fattener x64

Complexity

Built-Out Arrangement 43

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 6 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Joy Without Reason or Season" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big and Aegypt sequence. It points toward calendar magic, seasonal recurrence, and symbolic systems. The source connection is literary and thematic rather than an official adaptation: John Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, and the title system treats the catalog as a set of linked rooms inside that influence.

Motif signalLittle, BigAegypt sequence

Research source: Hachette: Little, Big Research source: Yale English: Endless Things / Aegypt

Search Context

Keywords: Joy Without Reason or Season, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Aegypt sequence, Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Piano / Keys, Vocal / Vox, Built-Out Arrangement, Audio Collage, Effectrix, Sausage Fattener x64, Ableton Live 9.5.

March 31 in history

2005 The dwarf planet Makemake is discovered by a team led by astronomer Michael E. Brown at the Palomar Observatory.Wikipedia: Makemake
1901 Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák premieres at the National Opera House in Prague.Wikipedia: Rusalka