Scarlet Current — 30 Min of 4K Feedback Fractals [Shoegaze / Neoclassical / Dub Techno]

Every shape here is a copy of a copy of a copy of the music. 30:00 of 4K video feedback with an original generative score that plays the picture. CHAPTERS 0:00 Bent Tunnel 1:49 Triangles of Light 2:11 Through the Lens 3:39 Triangles of Light II 4:55 Through the Lens II 5:39 Sierpinski Bloom 6:12 Bent Tunnel II 6:56 Snowflake 8:12 Wormhole 9:40 Crystal Bloom 10:24 Sierpinski Bloom II 11:02 Fronds 11:24 Through the Glass 11:50 Folding Light 12:44 Rosette 13:49 The Fern 14:32 The Dragon 15:05 Reflections 16:10 Dragon Curve 17:25 The Fern II 17:58 Beam Splitter 18:30 The Fern III 19:13 The Dragon II 19:46 Light Fern 20:18 Rosette II 21:03 Shards 22:30 The Gasket 23:02 Shards II 23:33 Sierpinski Bloom III 24:04 Branches 25:06 The Gasket II 25:38 Shards III 26:09 Sierpinski Bloom IV 27:11 Shards IV 27:42 Tree of Light HOW IT IS MADE Point a video camera at the monitor it is plugged into and the camera sees the monitor, which shows what the camera sees, which shows what the camera sees. Put a half-silvered mirror in the light path and the camera sees two or three copies of the screen at once, each shrunk, turned or flipped differently. Summed and fed back on every frame, those copies stop being copies and become fractals: Sierpinski gaskets, ferns, snowflakes, trees, dragon curves, spirals made of spirals. Turn the sharpness up far enough and the loop grows living cells instead. This video is a physically modelled simulation of such a rig, rendered in 4K. The beam-splitter paths, the monitor's brightness, contrast, hue and saturation, lens blur and distortion, chromatic aberration, halation, sensor noise and LCD persistence are all inside the loop, and nothing on screen is drawn directly except the light that goes in. That light is the soundtrack itself, traced like an oscilloscope, so every nested shape you see is an echo of the music from a moment before. Inspired by the analog optical feedback machines of Dave Blair (The Light Herder), who builds them from real cameras, monitors and beam-splitter glass. This channel is not affiliated with him — go and see the real thing. THE SCORE Generated and original, in 3 parts that crossfade into one another, each with its own palette: 0:00 shoegaze, G Mixolydian, 88 BPM — infrared 11:02 neoclassical / acid techno, G minor, 89 BPM — aurora 21:03 dub techno, D Dorian, 123 BPM — abyssal blue The kicks make the structure breathe, the snares send a shimmer down the copies, and each new movement arrives with a new arrangement of the glass. THIS VIDEO Palette: infrared → aurora → abyssal blue. Scenes: wormhole, gasket, snowflake, fern, splitter, dragon, rosette, shards, tree. Seed: 593332964. Every video is checked automatically against the ITU-R BT.1702 limits for flashing images before it is published. Full screen, lights off, sound up. Everything here — the rig, the performance, the music, the edit and the upload — is generated automatically. #videofeedback #fractal #4k #generativeart #shoegaze