Randomness, Chaos, and Uncertainty
Video synth tutorials
Patch diagrams in comments
0:00:00 - Prelude
0:02:03 - Overview
0:03:23 - What is information?
0:06:15 - Video art
0:08:35 - Dimensions
0:10:18 - Determinism
0:12:16 - Chaos theory
0:13:46 - True randomness
0:16:20 - Digital devices
0:18:07 - Fluctuation
0:18:32 - Feedback
0:21:40 - Modules
0:25:59 - Frequency modulation
0:26:56 - Demo: Oscillator cross-modulation
0:29:37 - Demo: Envelope cross-modulation
0:34:11 - Demo: VU005 slow-in, slow-out
0:35:57 - Amplitude modulation
0:38:18 - Fluctuation circuit
0:40:23 - Demo: Fluctuation
0:48:10 - Demo: Triple fluctuations
0:53:09 - Instantaneous randomness
0:53:55 - Demo: Quantized randomness
0:58:39 - Demo: Stored probabilistic randomness
1:00:47 - Demo: Random + slew
1:06:12 - Random intervals
1:06:39 - Demo: Random intervals
1:09:40 - Probability distribution
1:10:57 - Demo: Probability distribution
1:17:01 - Demo: Rungler shift register
1:27:03 - Demo: TV snow textures
1:37:49 - Demo: Complex modulation
1:47:11 - Coda
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Feedback diagram, Coils of the Worm, 1991
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Chaotic oscillation with DWO3 cross-modulation
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Chaotic envelope time: Maths cross-modulation
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Bridge as four-quadrant multipier
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Fluctuating rate of fluctuation
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Fluctuating shape modulation
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Modulated gradient offsets
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Sample and hold with VU009 sawtooth
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Modulated colorized RGB difference
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Baja modulated by Fluctuating Random Voltage
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So deep, so thorough. Thank you for making the video & patch diagrams, and extra thanks for posting everything here on the forum. Important work!
Thanks Chad!
It’s my pleasure, and as I said in the outro, I learned a lot in the process.
…that was a quite heavy chunk of information - thank you very much!…
…i‘ll have to re-watch this another three or seventeen times though 
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…great to see that you have moved a lot of your videos to Youtube - had a hard time finding those on Vimeo when trying to watch them a second (or eigthteenth) time…
Thanks. I moved all of the tutorials off of Vimeo because they were charging too much. And YouTube is the de facto means of discovery. Yay for hegemony!
