James B. Pollack · 2013

Frost on Brass Gears

125 BPMD# major1:01Ableton Live 9.0.63 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Frost on Brass Gears" by James B. Pollack. 125 BPM, D# major, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 3 Ableton sample references, samples including FREE VOX_bip_90.wav. "Frost on Brass Gears" 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: 125 BPM, D# major, 1:01.
Ableton source: project "nov13jam4", Ableton Live 9.0.6, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 3 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 71 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 20.
Ableton scan found 3 sample references.
Named vocal/sample source: FREE VOX_bip_90.wav.
Instrument tags: Drums, Vocal / Vox, Loops.
Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Effectrix.
Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Uplifting.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

125 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

125.0

Key

D# major

Duration

1:01

Ableton project

nov13jam4

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.0.6

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Vocal samples

FREE VOX_bip_90.wav

Plugins

Sylenth1, Effectrix

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 20

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 3 sample references.
Named vocal/sample source: FREE VOX_bip_90.wav.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Frost on Brass Gears" 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: Frost on Brass Gears, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Vocal / Vox, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Effectrix, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 125 BPM.

November 13 in history

1940 Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released at New York's Broadway Theatre, on the first night of a roadshow.Wikipedia: Walt Disney
1996 As part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project, Joel Armengaud discovers the project's first Mersenne prime number, <math>2^{1398269}-1</math>, a number with 420,921 digits.Wikipedia: Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search