James B. Pollack · 2013

Winter at the Doorstep

124 BPMC minor1:01Ableton Live 9.0.64 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Winter at the Doorstep" by James B. Pollack. 124 BPM, C minor, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 4 Ableton sample references. "Winter at the Doorstep" 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: 124 BPM, C minor, 1:01.
  • Ableton source: project "nov26jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.6, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 6 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 226 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 27.
  • Ableton scan found 4 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, FX, Loops.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
124 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
124.0
Key
C minor
Duration
1:01
Ableton project
nov26jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.6
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
4
Plugins
Sylenth1
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 27
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 4 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Winter at the Doorstep" 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, BigResearch source: Yale English: Endless Things / Aegypt
Search Context

Keywords: Winter at the Doorstep, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Aegypt sequence, Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Melancholic, Drums, FX, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 124 BPM.

November 26 in history
  • 1942 Casablanca, the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City.Wikipedia: Casablanca
  • 1922 The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)Wikipedia: The Toll of the Sea

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