James B. Pollack · 2016

Heat from the Philosopher's Furnace

125 BPME minor0:49Ableton Live 9.119 samplesBuilt-Out Arrangement

Listen to "Heat from the Philosopher's Furnace" by James B. Pollack. 125 BPM, E minor, Ableton Live 9.1, 19 Ableton sample references. "Heat from the Philosopher's Furnace" 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, E minor, 0:49.
  • Ableton source: project "feb6jam3", Ableton Live 9.1, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo. Audio analysis estimated 122.0 BPM, but the page uses the project tempo.
  • Session shape: 9 audio tracks, 15 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 44 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Built-Out Arrangement, score 52.
  • Ableton scan found 19 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, FX.
  • Arrangement tags: Built-Out Arrangement, Audio Collage.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Effectrix.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
125 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
122.0
Key
E minor
Duration
0:49
Ableton project
feb6jam3
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.1
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
19
Plugins
Sylenth1, Effectrix
Complexity
Built-Out Arrangement 52
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 19 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Heat from the Philosopher's Furnace" 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: Heat from the Philosopher's Furnace, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, FX, Built-Out Arrangement, Audio Collage, Sylenth1, Effectrix, Ableton Live 9.1.

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