All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Michele Paccagnella Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #4 19 July 2016 SKRONK #5 9 August 2016 SKRONK #2 21 June 2016 SKRONK #3 7 May 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

Hypermedia Open Space returned to the Fourth Portal for its tenth edition, bringing together an electric mix of poets, musicians, and experimental performers. The atmosphere was buzzing, with a diverse crowd of regulars and first-time visitors creating a space that felt like a gathering of old friends, despite many meeting for the first time. Hypermedia DIY Open Space 10 < Back 10 September 2024 Hypermedia Open Space returned to the Fourth Portal for its tenth edition, bringing together an electric mix of poets, musicians, and experimental performers. The atmosphere was buzzing, with a diverse crowd of regulars and first-time visitors creating a space that felt like a gathering of old friends, despite many meeting for the first time. Previous Next Hypermedia Open Space 10 From making the promotion video during the early afternoon, it was clear that there was real energy flowing for the evening. Despite a sudden mad passing storm, the day remained relatively warm, especially after what had been a mostly cold and wet spring and summer. Just watch as Joe Cleary and Harriet Hammond of Hypermedia fill the video with energy. https://video.wixstatic.com/video/2fcede_b88635a78d624ba984425efdb2e405c9/1080p/mp4/file.mp4 The Flow The night opened with an intense surge of sound from Borjenotborje, whose raw and electrifying performance set the tone for a roller-coaster of acts to follow. The momentum shifted with poet Fiona Spirals, who beautifully captured the essence of nature and the openness of the Thames mudflats, adding a serene and reflective dimension to the evening. Sophie Sirota took the audience into a meditative trance with a dramatic and intense soundscape, her viola resonating deeply through the space. A powerful lineup of poets, including Tamilore Orekan, Chris Porcas, Anthony Hart, Lee Campbell, Tony Thorley, and Zack Davies, delivered a diverse mix of spoken word and poetry, their voices weaving between the loud drums of Smell.iott and electronic textures from Bradley Ansley. Adding another layer of experimental storytelling, Akira (Ningrui), originally from China and now based in London, presented 3-minutes of her 20-minute short film blending generative art and visuals, pushing the boundaries of creative expression. The evening was a testament to the power of open creative spaces—where unexpected collaborations form, boundaries are tested, and community flourishes. Performers: Anthony Hart Bradley Ansley Borjenotborje Chris Porcas Fiona Spirals Joe Cleary Johnny G Lee Campbell Nick Poet Redeeming Features Smellilot Sophie Sirota Tamilore Orekan Tony Thorley Zack Davies Akira (Ningrui) Film of Changes, film by Ningrui Liu (Akira) Medium: Generative art / Systematic / Audio-visual art Shown to a great reception, Ningrui Liu aka Akira's film short investigates the aesthetics, philosophy and ethics of a traditional Chinese form of cleromancy - I Ching, or book of changes. By writing bespoke coding language and combining this tool with traditional media landscapes like film and creative arts, and related hybrid forms to subvert I Ching’s predominant uses. This generative design audio-visual work encourages the unforeseen in the filming process, which is breaking the f ilmmaking rules, and relinquishing control from the filmmaker's decision. The outcomes are based on the speculation that there is a hunch in the film industry that a systematic approach to cinematic notation is possible but has yet to be developed. As such, filmmakers could use a system of symbols to build a story, just like the staves and notations used by musicians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOUX53yMt8Y See Previous Events 🔗 All Hypermedia Open Spac e events 📸 Check out past performances, discussions, and the energy of previous events. Hypermedia Open Space events are free to attend, but donations are encouraged to help sustain the space. 📲 Find out more about Hypermedia: 🔗 Instagram: @hypermediaevents Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

Ten years of research and development has been spent developing these original portal spaces focused on technology, environment and sound that offer opportunity for entrepreneurship that benefits whole communities while reducing the impact on the planet. Video Tours Short Tours Of Our Online Venues Welcome to the Fourth Portal, thank you for your interest. Below you will find short videos providing some of the key features of our online venues, these are being updated regularly so please check back for more updates. Get In Touch Fourth Portal Lounge For gatherings from 6 to 500 people This 5min video offers a quick tour of the Fourth Portal Pavilion Lounge, perfect for smaller gatherings, including collaborations, networking, workshops, presentations and team-building events. The lounge can hold up to 500 hundred guests simultaneously and in addition to all the features mentioned, can also auto translate into 9 languages and offers Closed Captions for those with hearing impairment. BOOK A TOUR Fourth Portal Pavilion Arena For gatherings from 150 to 2000 people This short video offers a tour of the main features of the Fourth Portal Pavilion Arena, a perfect venue for larger gatherings, conferences, major work events, showcasing, exhibitions, training, educational events and open days. The Pavilion Arena can accomodate up to 2,000 guests simultaneously and in addition to all the features mentioned, can also auto translate into 9 languages and offers Closed Captions for those with hearing impairment. BOOK A TOUR Discussion Festival Weekly online Free event This short video offers a tour of the main features of the Fourth Portal Pavilion Arena, a perfect venue for larger gatherings, conferences, major work events, showcasing, exhibitions, training, educational events and open days. The Pavilion Arena can accomodate up to 2,000 guests simultaneously and in addition to all the features mentioned, can also auto translate into 9 languages and offers Closed Captions for those with hearing impairment. BOOK A TOUR

This is a dummy page showing how an Impro Vox gig page may appear once the Culture Reverb memory system is live. It is for demonstration purposes only and not yet connected to the full network. ImproVox Gigs Impro Vox – Culture Reverb Demonstration Page This page is a demonstration of how Culture Reverb may look once live. The Impro Vox webpage automatically generates a gig page containing a full interactive list of performers. These pages will connect to individual artist pages, instruments, collaborations, and venues, allowing scenes to emerge from the data. Once fully live, everything on the page will be connected across the open web. Impro Vox is brought together by Freland Green and Stuart Wilding. For more information on Culture Reverb, contact John a John at info@fourthportal.com ImproVox #11 29 September 2025 Bridewell Theatre Bar, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4 8EQ Veryan Weston Alan Wilkinson Phase IV Laura Fudge Dominic Thurston Matteo Malquori https://www.fourthportal.com/improv-performer/dominic-thurston ImproVox #11 ImproVox #10 30 June 2025 Bridewell Theatre Bar, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4 8EQ Julia Brüssel Hannah Marshall Jonny Martin Anthony Osborne Seb Stone Scott Biagi Adrian Roper James Spatz ImproVox #10 ImproVox #09 19 May 2025 Bridewell Theatre Bar, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4 8EQ Steven J. Fowler Benedict Taylor Saulius Bendoraitis Tomas Mejer Freland Green Matteo Malquori Mario Guarnieri Stuart Wilding ImproVox #08 14 April 2025 Bridewell Theatre Bar, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4 8EQ Charlotte Keeffe Pete Robson Stuart Wilding Charlie Folorunsho Laura Fudge Sally Stamp Phil Hollins Akira Felix X Tigersonic Jo Morrison ImproVox #08 ImproVox #07 10 March 2025 Bridewell Theatre Bar, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4 8EQ Viv Corringham Iris Garrelfs Elien De Schryver Barbara Mukoda Pete Robson Seb Stone Dominic Thurston ImproVox #06 5 February 2025 Bridewell Theatre Bar, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4 8EQ Antonio Arca Mario Guarnieri Stuart Wilding Ben Watson Bill O’Connor Sophie Sleigh Johnson ImproVox #05 10 December 2024 Bridewell Theatre Bar, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4 8EQ Maggie Nichols Mark Wastell Felix X Tigersonic Mario Guarnieri Simon Lawson Phil Hollins Freland Green ImproVox #04 28 October 2024 Bridewell Theatre Bar, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4 8EQ Iris Colomb Lev Dudas Ian Kennedy Carina Tint Michael Zbyszynski Saulius Bendoraitis Isaac Robson Pete Robson ImproVox #03 30 September 2024 Bridewell Theatre Bar, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4 8EQ Kay Grant Alex Ward Myco Phoonk Simon Lawson Matt Scott ImproVox #02 30 August 2024 Bridewell Theatre Bar, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4 8EQ Antonio Arca Will Morland Barbara Mukoda Vivienne Soan Ben Watson Michael Zbyszynski ImproVox #01 8 July 2024 Bridewell Theatre Bar, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4 8EQ Sharon Gal Sue Lynch Adrian Roper Ian Kennedy Isaac Robson Andrea Bolzoni Scott Biagi Mario Guarnieri

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A special screening of 3D drone footage of the SS Richard Montgomery Medway shipwreck and how the Port of London Authority identify other wreaks in the Thames and estuary. SS Richard Montgomery Screening < Back 3 December 2023 A special screening of 3D drone footage of the SS Richard Montgomery Medway shipwreck and how the Port of London Authority identify other wreaks in the Thames and estuary. Previous Next Port of London Authority Hyrdrogeograher, Cullen O Donnell presented 3D drone visualisation of the Medway shipwreck, SS Richard Montgomery, on the Fourth Portal Lab's big screen. Cullen discussed shipwrecks in the Thames and how the footage of the wreck was gathered and manipulated. Thia was a one-off occassion and was accompanied by Joe Whittaker of DAZZLE and Ship's Company singing some sea-shanties in keeping with the Thames and shipwrecks. More on the SS Richard Montgomery, from New Scientist Magazine. "Three masts sticking up above the waves near the coastal town of Sheerness in the UK mark the spot where a deadly wreck has been rusting for almost 80 years. They belong to the SS Richard Montgomery, a US second world war-era ship that ran aground in August 1944 with a cargo of bombs. The half-submerged wreck, just 2 kilometres from land, still has 1400 tonnes of TNT in its holds." [read on here...] (New Scientist, By Mick Hamer, 14 January 2022). This event has ended Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

< 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 Cloud Under The Sea The industry responsible for laying the cables for the internet traces its origins back far beyond the internet, past even the telephone, to the early days of telegraphy. It’s invisible, under-appreciated, analog. Few people set out to join the profession, mostly because few people know it exists. The Verge 19 Apr 2024 Want a career connecting the world? An immersive long read about laying the cables that the internet and we all rely upon. The home of the Fourth Portal, St Andrew's Church, is dedicated to those who work and travel the seas. This excellent long read follows the journey of those who repair the cables of the worldwide internet, revealing a fascinating life and opportunities for employment to see a whole new world. ___ "St Andrew's Waterside Church Mission for Sailors, Fishermen and Emigrants, 1864-1939 was established in 1864 to serve merchant seamen, fishermen and emigrants passing through the parish of Holy Trinity at Milton-next-Gravesend on 'sound Church principles', (ie 'high' or mainstream rather than 'low' church within the Church of England)." ( https://mar.ine.rs/stories/st-andrews-waterside-church-mission/ ) ___ “It hasn’t changed in 150 years... The Victorians did it that way and we’re doing it the same way.” "The industry responsible for this crucial work traces its origins back far beyond the internet, past even the telephone, to the early days of telegraphy. It’s invisible, underappreciated, analog. Few people set out to join the profession, mostly because few people know it exists. Others come to the field from merchant navies, marine construction, cable engineering, geology, optics, or other tangentially related disciplines. When Fumihide Kobayashi, the submersible operator — a tall and solidly built man from the mountain region of Nagano — joined KCS at the age of 20, he thought he would be working on ship maintenance, not working aboard a maintenance ship. He had never been on a boat before, but Hirai enticed him to stay with stories of all the whales and other marine creatures he would see on the remote ocean. Once people are in, they tend to stay. For some, it’s the adventure — repairing cables in the churning currents of the Congo Canyon and enduring hull-denting North Atlantic storms. Others find a sense of purpose in maintaining the infrastructure on which society depends, even if most people’s response when they hear about their job is, But isn’t the internet all satellites by now? The sheer scale of the work can be thrilling, too. People will sometimes note that these are the largest construction projects humanity has ever built or sum up a decades-long resume by saying they’ve laid enough cable to circle the planet six times. The world is in the midst of a cable boom, with multiple new transoceanic lines announced every year. However, there is growing concern that the industry responsible for maintaining these cables is running perilously lean. There are 77 cable ships in the world, according to data supplied by SubTel Forum, but most are focused on the more profitable work of laying new systems. Only 22 are designated for repair, and it’s an ageing and eclectic fleet. Often, maintenance is their second act. Some, like Alcatel’s Ile de Molene, are converted tugs. “One of the biggest problems we have in this industry is attracting new people to it,” said Constable. He recalled another panel he was on in Singapore meant to introduce university students to the industry. “The audience was probably about 10 university kids and 60 old grey people from the industry just filling out their day,” he said. When he speaks with students looking to get into tech, he tries to convince them that subsea cables are also part — a foundational part — of the tech industry. “They all want to be data scientists and that sort of stuff,” he said. “But for me, I find this industry fascinating. You’re dealing with the most hostile environment on the planet, eight kilometres deep in the oceans, working with some pretty high technology, travelling all over the world. You’re on the forefront of geopolitics, and it’s critical for the whole way the world operates now.” The industry’s biggest recruiting challenge, however, is the industry’s invisibility. It’s a truism that people don’t think about infrastructure until it breaks, but they tend not to think about fixing it, either. In his 2014 essay, “Rethinking Repair,” professor of information science Steven Jackson argued that contemporary thinking about technology romanticizes moments of invention over the ongoing work of maintenance, though it is equally important to the deployment of functional technology in the world. There are few better examples than the subsea cable industry, which, for over a century, has been so effective at quickly fixing faults that the public has rarely had a chance to notice. Or as one industry veteran put it, “We are one of the best-kept secrets in the world, because things just work.” https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships For more: Security, Infrastructure Previous Next

On a warm summer evening, Hypermedia Open Space 9 brought together poets, musicians, and experimental performers for another night of DIY creativity, open mic, and discussion at the Fourth Portal. With a mix of laughter, poetry, and sound experiments, the event showcased established and emerging artists, proving once again that unpredictability fuels creativity. Hypermedia DIY Open Space 9 < Back 14 August 2024 On a warm summer evening, Hypermedia Open Space 9 brought together poets, musicians, and experimental performers for another night of DIY creativity, open mic, and discussion at the Fourth Portal. With a mix of laughter, poetry, and sound experiments, the event showcased established and emerging artists, proving once again that unpredictability fuels creativity. Previous Next Hypermedia Open Space 9 On a warm summer evening, Hypermedia Open Space 9 returned to the Fourth Portal, bringing together poets, musicians, sound artists, and experimental performers for another night of DIY creativity, open mic, and discussion. Known for its welcoming and unpredictable atmosphere, the event was a cracking evening of laughter, original poetry, and song, where new voices and returning performers pushed the boundaries of performance and community-driven arts. A Stage for All Voices With a steady flow of performances, the Fourth Portal stage saw contributions from both established and emerging artists, creating an environment where new collaborations formed in real time. Performers included (some names missing): Anthony Hart Chris Porcas Joe Cleary Johnny G Lee Campbell Nick Poet Redeeming Features Evelina Renata Arthur Camara Paul Taylor Joe Whittaker From high-energy spoken word to experimental soundscapes, Hypermedia Open Space 9 continued to demonstrate the power of grassroots creative spaces in Gravesend and beyond. As always, the evening embraced unpredictability, proving once again that art, music, and poetry thrive when given space to evolve without constraints. Artist focus Paul Taylor – Trombone Poetry Paul Taylor (main video below) is a multifaceted artist based in Rotherhithe, London, best known for Trombone Poetry, a solo performance project blending spoken word and trombone improvisation. His work is a fusion of rhythm, melody, and poetry, creating a distinctive and dynamic storytelling experience. In addition to performing, Paul is a brass tutor and author, with a background in philosophy and music education. 🔗 Trombone Poetry Website 🔗 Paul Taylor on Facebook Joe Whittaker – Folk Singer & Promoter Joe Whittaker is a folk singer and event booker at the Dartford Folk Club, one of the longest-running folk venues in the UK. A strong advocate for folk traditions and storytelling through song, he is also a contributor to Folk London, a bi-monthly magazine covering folk music, dance, and song events across Greater London and beyond. 🔗 Folk London Website Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

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