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< Back WorldRadioHistory.com WorldRadioHistory.com is a non-profit, free online library dedicated to preserving and providing access to a vast collection of radio, broadcasting, and electronics publications. The vast online archive of WorldRadioHistory.com, preserving decades of radio, television, and electronics publications, perfectly reflects the philosophy behind the Fourth Portal strapline: The Past and Future always meet in the Present. WorldRadioHistory.com 10 Feb 2025 The vast online archive of WorldRadioHistory.com , preserving decades of radio, television, and electronics publications, perfectly reflects the philosophy behind the Fourth Portal strapline: The Past and Future always meet in the Present. More than just historical records, these magazines remain valuable learning tools. They contain detailed technical explanations of circuits and electronics projects, offering insights that are still relevant today. While the technology may have evolved, the fundamental principles remain unchanged - making this archive an invaluable resource for anyone looking to understand electronics, experiment with ideas, or explore the foundat ions of modern innovation. ___Read More_ __ WorldRadioHistory.com The Past and Future always meet in the Present. At the Fourth Portal, we explore the intersections of history, technology, and innovation, creating spaces where knowledge, ideas, and creativity evolve in hybrid digital and real-world environments. Understanding the past is essential to shaping the future, and preserving historical knowledge ensures that new generations can build upon it. One of the most comprehensive resources for broadcasting and electronics history is WorldRadioHistory.com . This non-profit online archive, founded by David E. F. Gleason, provides free access to an extensive collection of radio, television, and electronics publications spanning over a century. From early radio technology to modern broad casting, this resource is invaluable for researchers, historians, and enthusiasts. Explore their vast library here: WorldRadioHistory.com What is WorldRadioHistory.com ? WorldRadioHistory.com is a non-profit, free online library dedicated to preserving and providing ac cess to a vast collection of radio, broadcasting, and electronics publications. Founded and published by David E. F. Gleason, the website offers an extensive archive of magazines, books, and documents spanning from the early 20th century to the p resent day. Its mission is to make the history of all aspects of radio and TV more accessible, especially as many printed materials become increasingly scarce. Categories & Archives The site is organized into various sections, including: Radio and Music – Publications related to music programming and radio. Early Radio – Documents focusing on radio stations and technology from 1900 to World War II. Technical & Audio & Companies – Materials covering broadcast, audio, and equipment manufacturers. Bookshelf – Over 1,000 books on electronics, radio programming, and music. United Kingdom – Publications from the UK related to music, radio, and electronics. World Pages – International publications from Europe, Canada, Oceania, and Latin America. Amate ur & DX – Resources for radio hobbyists, including ham radio and DXing. A Living Resource for Learning These old magazines hold immense value—not just as historical records but as living re sources for learning. Many contain detailed technical explanations of circuits and electronics projects, breaking down how components interact in a way that remains relevant today. Even though the technology may be outdated, the fundamental knowledge is timeless—making this archive an invaluable resource for anyo ne looking to understand electronics, experiment with ideas, or explore the foundations of modern innovation. Discover More For a visual overvie w of the site's offerings, watch this vid eo ▶ WorldRadioHistory.com : An Amazing Archive of Radio and Electronics Publications Excerpt from video: “...name and find every magazine that referenced him by name. But that search function is just awesome. I absolutely love that you can search through all of these catalogs for a particular subject. Now what I was going to tell you is I went and I, when I was browsing around in here, this thing is a complete rabbit hole. You can blow days and days and days in here. I think it was the May of 72 issue of 73 magazine. And this is a big, big one, so it'll take a moment for it to download. So while it's downloading, I've spent the last couple of days in here just reading and looking and reading, and it's just fascinating stuff. There's a lot of value in these old magazines if you're an electronics experimenter. The projects that were in them generally have really good technical descriptions of how the circuit works. So if you're learning electronics, and you're just beginning to mess around with transistors and so on, you can go and you can look at some of these old projects that are in here, and they'll break it down for you and explain how the circuit works. And so you can actually learn more about electronics. You don't have to build the projects, you can just read about them and learn more about how the components and things are working and interacting and what's going on. So there's a lot of value in these magazines still, even though they're way outdated technology wise. The basic skills you need for electronics are all there, and this is an incredible resource for that alone ," Recognised for Excellence In recog nition of its significant contribution to preserving broadcast history, WorldRadioHistory.com received the 2023 National Association of Broadc asters and Library of American Broadcasting Foundation's Excellence in Broadcast Preservation Award . Cautionary Note (from WorldHistoryRadio.com ) "'This website's collection includes historical documents containing language, images or photographs which, today, may or should be viewed as offensive, Such inclusions should not be interpreted in any way as an approval or endorsement by the site contributors and publishers, who do not share, endorse or condone any offensive language or materials. On the contrary, we hope that accurate portrayals of hist orical realities will further our understandings of the challenges of today. 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Two sell-out shows saw the Laserium transport audiences beyond the usual live performance, immersing them in a visual and sound mindscape. Post-event reviews described the experience as evoking the creation of the universe, forming unexpected narratives, and delivering sensorial experiences that transcended traditional perception. Funki Porcini Laserium Sunday < Back 28 January 2024 Two sell-out shows saw the Laserium transport audiences beyond the usual live performance, immersing them in a visual and sound mindscape. Post-event reviews described the experience as evoking the creation of the universe, forming unexpected narratives, and delivering sensorial experiences that transcended traditional perception. Previous Next "Scrambled brains," "unexpected connections of characters with the sounds," and "took the brain to many different places and calming" are just a few of the comments from attendees of the full Laserium at the Fourth Portal. The hundred-plus comments from the hundreds who viewed the 10-minute Laserium tasters during the Gravesham Light Festival had already piqued audience anticipation. What was encountered took the full-show audience well beyond typical live performance expectations. With over 800 lasers pulsating to a specially written composition, the Laserium is a masterpiece by Ninja Tune veteran Funki Porcini (James Braddell). Sitting in a blacked-out Fourth Portal, a former seafarers' chapel, the Laserium took the audience on a unique and surprising journey that "fully immersed" yet "allowed space within the mind to make your own narrative" (audience comments). Full Laserium show audience reviews, Sunday, 29 January 2024 Who is Funki Porcini? James Braddell, aka Funki Porcini, is a British music provocateur and humorist of the early Ninja Tune period. He mixes surreal jazz, found noise, synthetic strangeness, and dream logic. The name "Funki Porcini" is a twist on "Funghi Porcini," the Italian name for the mushroom Boletus edulis, commonly known as "penny bun." He spent ten years in Italy making music for film and television. Thereafter, he returned to England. In 1994, he signed to independent record label Ninja Tune and set up his own studio, The Uterus Goldmine. This event has ended. Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Viv Corringham Voice Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Flimflam 24 September 2025 Boat-Ting Nov24 4 November 2024 ImproVox #07 10 March 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

< Back Visual Speech In Real Noisy Environments (VISION) A Novel BenchmarkDataset and Deep Learning-based Baseline System ResearchGate 1 Oct 2022 In this paper, we present VIsual Speech In real nOisy eNvi- ronments (VISION), a first of its kind audio-visual (AV) cor- pus comprising 2500 utterances from 209 speakers, recorded in real noisy environments including social gatherings, streets, cafeterias and restaurants. While a number of speech enhance- ment frameworks have been proposed in the literature that ex- ploit AV cues, there are no visual speech corpora recorded in real environments with a sufficient variety of speakers, to en- able evaluation of AV frameworks’ generalisation capability in a wide range of background visual and acoustic noises. The main purpose of our AV corpus is to foster research in the area of AV signal processing and to provide a benchmark corpus that can be used for reliable evaluation of AV speech enhancement systems in everyday noisy settings. In addition, we present a baseline deep neural network (DNN) based spectral mask es- timation model for speech enhancement. Comparative simula- tion results with subjective listening tests demonstrate signifi- cant performance improvement of the baseline DNN compared to state-of-the-art speech enhancement approache https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354141486_Visual_Speech_In_Real_Noisy_Environments_VISION_A_Novel_Benchmark_Dataset_and_Deep_Learning-Based_Baseline_System For more: Audio Previous Next

< Back The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again 2024 offers many of the promises of an online moment we haven’t seen in a quarter-century. RollingStone 30 Dec 2023 Across today’s internet, the stores that deliver all the apps on our phones are cracking open, the walls between social media platforms are coming down as the old networks fail, the headlong rush towards AI is making our search engines and work apps weirder (and often worse!). But amidst it all, the human web, the one made by regular people, is resurgent. We are about to see the biggest reshuffling of power on the internet in 25 years, in a way that most of the internet’s current users have never seen before. And while some of the drivers of this change have been hyped up, or even over-hyped, a few of the most important changes haven’t gotten any discussion at all. The first thing to understand about this new era of the internet is that power is, undoubtedly, shifting. That’s not just good news for the billions of people who own smartphones. It’s part of a sea change for the coders and designers who build the apps, sites, and games we all use. For an entire generation, the imagination of people making the web has been hemmed in by the control of a handful of giant companies that have had enormous control over things like search results, or app stores, or ad platforms, or payment systems. Going back to the more free-for-all nature of the Nineties internet could mean we see a proliferation of unexpected, strange new products and services. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/ For more: Previous Next

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

< 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

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

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

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 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

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