James B. Pollack · 2017

What Hugh Learned from Fighting

120 BPMC minor2:08Ableton Live 9.521 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "What Hugh Learned from Fighting" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, C minor, Ableton Live 9.5, 21 Ableton sample references. "What Hugh Learned from Fighting" 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, C minor, 2:08.
  • Ableton source: project "april6jam1_blackbelt", Ableton Live 9.5, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 3 audio tracks, 4 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 50 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 27.
  • Ableton scan found 21 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, Strings, FX.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Plugin count: 2.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
120 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
120.0
Key
C minor
Duration
2:08
Ableton project
april6jam1_blackbelt
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.5
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
21
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 27
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 21 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"What Hugh Learned from Fighting" 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: What Hugh Learned from Fighting, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, Strings, FX, Lean Arrangement, Ableton Live 9.5, 120 BPM.

April 6 in history
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