James B. Pollack · 2015

Nativity of an Obscure Star

120 BPMG# major2:15Ableton Live 9.0.42 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Nativity of an Obscure Star" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, G# major, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 2 Ableton sample references, samples including Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes Full Acappella 2014.wav. "Nativity of an Obscure Star" 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, G# major, 2:15.
Ableton source: project "dec25jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 6 audio tracks, 3 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 43 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 32.
Ableton scan found 2 sample references.
Named vocal/sample source: Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes Full Acappella 2014.wav.
Repeated sample source: motorcycle as the rush comes 2014.
Related sample family: sample-motorcycle-as-the-rush-comes-201-d0e45eeb.
Instrument tags: Drums, Vocal / Vox, Loops.
Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
Highlighted plugins: Zebra2, SausageFattener.
Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Dreamy, Uplifting.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

120 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

120.0

Key

G# major

Duration

2:15

Ableton project

dec25jam1

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.0.4

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Vocal samples

Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes Full Acappella 2014.wav

Plugins

Zebra2, SausageFattener

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 32

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 2 sample references.
Named vocal/sample source: Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes Full Acappella 2014.wav.
Repeated sample source: motorcycle as the rush comes 2014.
Related sample family: sample-motorcycle-as-the-rush-comes-201-d0e45eeb.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Nativity of an Obscure Star" 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: Nativity of an Obscure Star, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Driving, Intense, Dreamy, Uplifting, Drums, Vocal / Vox, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Zebra2, SausageFattener, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 120 BPM.

December 25 in history

1758 Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.Wikipedia: Halley's Comet
2004 The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.Wikipedia: Cassini orbiter