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- Myco Phoonk | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Myco Phoonk Words, Music & Myco Sounds Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs ImproVox #03 30 September 2024 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Linked Data Search For Donors To Leopold McClintock's 1857 Franklin search expedition | FourthPortal
< Back Linked Data Search For Donors To Leopold McClintock's 1857 Franklin search expedition Wikidata, linked data, indirectly published. The Fourth Portal Lab hosts a plaque dedicated to the crew lost searching for the Northwest Passage in 1845. This PhD research uses a form of linking data to decipher the donors who paid for a search party to go out and find the ships. All Well Polar Notes by Allegra Rosenberg 7 Dec 2022 Example of linking data The Fourth Portal Lab hosts a plaque dedicated to the crew lost searching for the Northwest Passage in 1845. This PhD research uses a form of linking data to decipher the donors who paid for a search party to find the ships. ___ Using the list included in the book The Voyage of the Fox, I sought out biographical detail for as many of the donors to Leopold McClintock’s 1857 expedition in search of Sir John Franklin as I could find. The list is a fascinating cross-section of Victorian society: from artists to Chartists, musicians to engineers, Navy and Army men to Bishops, all invested in the ongoing public project that was the search for Franklin. There are many rich peers and notable MPs on the list, but there are also many nigh-anonymous Esqs. and Misses who gave just a few shillings. Naturally I was able to find far more biographical detail on the wealthier and more famous donors—however, in opening this up as a Public Humanities project I hope to receive comments and input that will expand the available information to hopefully include more details about the unidentified donors. ___ Full details here The Donors of the Fox Posted on December 7, 2022 by admin This summer, I was the recipient of the generous Digital Humanities Fellowship from NYU. My proposed project was a broad-reaching initiative called “Visualizing the Victorian Polar Network,” but once the fellowship began I quickly realized I had to narrow my view, and ended up settling on a revised version of my project where I would create an interactive, annotated biographical database of all of the donors to Leopold McClintock’s 1857 Franklin search expedition, spearheaded by Lady Jane Franklin as a private expedition to look for her missing husband and his crew after the Admiralty had abdicated all responsibility for the continuing search. cont ... https://allegrarosenberg.notion.site/9d3c4db5a6f743668405ef7166729358?v=25c9bbaa820c4542b8e1a6278f5ec7c7 For more: Machine Learning, Linked Data, Meta Tags Previous Next
- Korhan Futaci | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Korhan Futaci Alto Saxophone Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Flimflam 24 September 2025 London Improvisers Orchestra #36 7 June 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Mike Cooper
A rare opportunity to see the extraordinary musician Mike Cooper performing live in the intimate Fourth Portal Lab. Mike Cooper < Back 8 October 2023 A rare opportunity to see the extraordinary musician Mike Cooper performing live in the intimate Fourth Portal Lab. Previous Next About the event Mike Cooper has been described as "the icon of post-everything music". This was a rare opportunity to see the extraordinary musician Mike Cooper performing. ___ Mike Cooper Mike Cooper (b.1942) was a pioneer of the 1960s folk/blues scene alongside John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and Davey Graham, but his restless exploration and enthusiasm for world music and experimental music led him to greatly expand his repertoire. More recent work straddles the genres of free improvisation, ambient electronica, and Polynesian exotica, whilst his original country/folk influences and technique are never too far from the surface. Cooper has long been fascinated by the tragic story of the Franklin voyage, commemorated by a plaque in the home of the Fourth Portal, St. Andrew's Mission Church, Gravesend, and this unique performance will include a meditation, including video projections, on this expedition. More info on Mike Cooper - https://www.cooparia.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cooper_(musician) This event has ended Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next
- Wavelength Orchestra Jun23
The first Wavelength Orchestra was an open-access group of musicians brought together to perform a long-form, slowly evolving piece of music - the score of which is the River Thames breaking on the beach. Wavelength Orchestra Jun23 < Back 11 June 2023 The first Wavelength Orchestra was an open-access group of musicians brought together to perform a long-form, slowly evolving piece of music - the score of which is the River Thames breaking on the beach. Previous Next About This Event The Fourth Portal presents, along with Richard Sanderson The Wavelength Orchestra | FREE A performance for multiple musicians on the beach next to St Andrews Art Centre, Royal Pier Road, Gravesend, DA12 2BD Sunday 11th June 2023, 2.30pm Short introduction workshop on how the Drone Orchestra works. Performance begins at 3pm and concludes before 5pm. The Wavelength Orchestra is an open-access group of musicians brought together to perform a long-form, slowly evolving piece of music - the score of which is the River Thames breaking on the beach. The performance is free to attend. . Additional Performers Sought! The Wavelength Orchestra welcomes additional performers from the local community - all you need is a portable instrument, which doesn't need mains electricity, and to attend a workshop in the Fourth Portal at 2.30 before the performance. All skill levels are welcome. This event has ended. Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next
- New AI Beats DeepMind’s AlphaGo Variants 97% Of The Time! | FourthPortal
< Back New AI Beats DeepMind’s AlphaGo Variants 97% Of The Time! WATCH: Adversarial attack paper showing how to confuse a competent AI and re-programme the AI brain. YouTube 21 Aug 2023 Abstract We attack the state-of-the-art Go-playing AI system KataGo by training adversarial policies against it, achieving a >97% win rate against KataGo running at superhuman settings. Our adversaries do not win by playing Go well. Instead, they trick KataGo into making serious blunders. Our attack transfers zero-shot to other superhuman Go-playing AIs, and is comprehensible to the extent that human experts can implement it without algorithmic assistance to consistently beat superhuman AIs. The core vulnerability uncovered by our attack persists even in KataGo agents adversarially trained to defend against our attack. Our results demonstrate that even superhuman AI systems may harbor surprising failure modes. The papers in this episode are available here: https://goattack.far.ai/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00241 YouTube: Two Minute Papers . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTUnVEiO-TU For more: AI, Machine Learning, Algorithm, LLM Previous Next
- Matteo Malquori | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Matteo Malquori Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs ImproVox #11 29 September 2025 ImproVox #09 19 May 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Olga Ksendzovska | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Olga Ksendzovska Piano / Organ / Melodica / Conductor Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs London Improvisers Orchestra #39 28 September 2025 London Improvisers Orchestra #37 8 March 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- How to do VFX
Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. < Back How to do VFX Start Time 19:00 Running Time 50 Minutes Location 14. The Grand GYG Event Type Talk About the Event Introduction Provide a practical introduction to what you need to know and where to get the software to start doing VFX along with video examples. More on the event lead Val Wardlaw - VFX and Comp Supervisor. Event Information This event is free If strong demand this event might require a free ticket in advance - please check back before attending. ___ Even more information ___ Check out Val's credits here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0912036/ THIS PAGE IS BEING UPDATED See Val's Muppet work here: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Val_Wardlaw Val Wardlaw is a visual effects artist working in the digital field. She worked with Jim Henson's Creature Shop variously as compositor, animator, or supervisor of computer-generated or supplemented Creatures . She had previously worked with the Computer Film Company, including on The Muppet Christmas Carol . Wardlaw co-founded the visual effects house Baseblack, which worked on Harry Potter movies, Hotel Rwanda, Casino Royale , Hot Fuzz, and Hellboy II: The Golden Army. In 2011, she founded a new company, Perluceo, working mainly on documentaries and 3D films, including Disney 's Bears. Previous Next
- Soundings Part One
Soundings Part 1 | Afternoon: Minimal, ambient electronic music, sound and electronics. Soundings Part One < Back 9 July 2023 Soundings Part 1 | Afternoon: Minimal, ambient electronic music, sound and electronics. Previous Next About the event Fourth Portal, along with sound artist in residence, Richard Sanderson, presented an afternoon of exploratory sound and ambient music in the extraordinary and resonant space of St Andrew's Arts Centre in Gravesend - a former seamans' chapel on the waterfront. Featuring sets from raxil4, Klaus Bru and whthppnsfprssthsbttn The performers played elongated sets throughout the afternoon, and audience were encouraged to walk around the space and experience the sounds and resonances from different locations, and also to make themselves comfortable and let the extraordinary sounds wash over. PERFORMERS raxil4 (live electronics) raxil4 is multi-disciplinary sound artist Andrew Page, specialising in analogue electronic dronescapes, acoustic audio phenomenon and installation. He has performed live all over Europe, and many of his performances have been in non-traditional venues, often choosing to play spaces with character and interesting acoustic qualities, such as caves, churches, crypts, prison cells, psychiatric hospitals & water towers. He has also performed live and installed durational works in galleries such as Tate Modern (London), The Barbican (London), The Arnolfini (Bristol), M-HKA (Antwerp), Sonnestube (Lugano), Soundfjord (London) & GV Art (London). Some of his generative pieces have been discussed in classes on composition at the Royal Academy of Music. The first 400 releases of his back catalogue now reside within the British Library Sound Archive. Klaus Bru (saxophone and electronics) German-born Klaus Bru is one of only a few saxophonists performing exclusively on the rare C-Melody and C-Soprano saxes -- instruments, which were extremely popular in the 1920s. These antiquities sound utterly contemporary in Bru’s hands, particularly when he furnishes them with electronic treatment. His artistic output is characterised by its variety: He brings in the folk music of the world (typically from Eastern Europe and Turkey), Avant-garde ridden improvisation concepts, air sounds and electronic noises, strange meters and odd tempos, plus -- last but not least -- singable melodies over the moving chords of jazz standards or his compositions. whthppnsfprssthsbttn (pronounced "What Happens If I Press This Button") Experimental live electronica from Roy and Rich from Rochester. Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next
- Adrian Roper | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Adrian Roper Voice Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #177 2 September 2025 ImproVox #10 30 June 2025 ImproVox #01 8 July 2024 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Bryan Styles | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Bryan Styles Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #3 7 May 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number




