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- Haymont Tesfa | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Haymont Tesfa Voice Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Oct18 1 October 2018 Boat-Ting Oct 2018 http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Colin Webster | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Colin Webster Saxophone Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Flimflam 25 June 2025 FlimFlam 29 October 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies (FAST) | FourthPortal
< Back Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies (FAST) In 2018, the Fourth Portal curated delivery of the £5m EPSRC FAST programme to the music industry at Abbey Road studios, demonstrating the very latest technologies for end-to-end music production and delivery. The videos that follow provide an overview of the programme and demonstrators developed. C4DM, Queen Mary, University of London 3 Mar 2024 The Fusing Audio and Semantic Technology (FAST) programme was presented to the music industry at Abbey Road Studios in 2018. Its mission was to demonstrate the very latest technologies to bear on the complete industry, end-to-end, producer-to-consumer, making the production process more fruitful, the consumption process more engaging, and the delivery and intermediation more automated and robust. https://vimeo.com/297989936 Background Music is probably the most pervasive of the performing arts, and perhaps, the most abused (think of your recent shopping trips!). It has tremendous power to influence our emotions, often subliminally. The advent of recording in the 19th Century made it possible to enjoy music at a time, and in a place, different from the performance. Compression, broadband and the ever-increasing capacity to aggregate large collections mean that the issues confronting music consumers have totally changed in nature: equally so for professionals, such as broadcasters (playlists for radio, music for documentaries, etc.) and those at the creative heart of the process: musicians, sound engineers and producers. The recorded music industry has grappled unsuccessfully with digital technology and the rate of adoption of new technologies has been slow, ironically, mostly in fear of piracy and loss of revenue. Given the social and economic importance of music, it is vital that the industry's crisis is averted and its decline reversed. Simple semantics and metadata are already helping (for example in recommendation and sharing services) but this is just the beginning. The next-generation semantic technologies that are the focus of this proposal have the power to exact the turnaround that music (and other content industries) needs but this should be established via a fundamental and principled exploration of how semantic technologies underpin music throughout the value chain. The proposal brought the latest technologies to bear on the complete industry, end-to-end, producer to consumer, making the production process more fruitful, the consumption process more engaging, and the delivery and intermediation more automated and robust. In this project we will address 3 premises: (i) that Semantic Web technologies should be deployed throughout the content value chain from producer to consumer; (ii) that advanced signal processing should be employed in the content production phases to extract "pure" features of perceptual significance and represent these in standard vocabularies; (iii) that this combination of semantic technologies and content-derived metadata leads to advantages (and new products and services) at many points in the value chain, from recording studio to end-user (listener) devices and applications. https://vimeo.com/297974486 Partners The project will work with partners from industry - BBC R&D, Microsoft Research Cambridge and Omnifone) as well as internationally - the International Audio Labs, a joint initiative of the Fraunhofer Institute in Erlangen and the local university, and the Internet Archive, one of the world's major on-line libraries. We will engage with other universities in the UK supported by a partnership fund and via the BBC Audio Research Partnership. https://vimeo.com/297981584 Present Impact This programme is fostering new ways for professionals to work with music in the studio and for consumers to engage in their homes. It will support new business models that emphasise the whole experience of musical involvement, and discover ways to monetise the metadata as well as the essential content. The technologies to be researched support new ways of learning (about and playing) music as well as new ways of teaching and performing. And because the project will encompass vast quantities of music data and metadata, from heterogeneous sources, and will stress test emerging principles of big data, distributed intelligence and future generation web, it also addresses key questions of wide significance to EPSRC's ICT Programme, particularly relating to Intelligent Information Systems and Working Together. https://vimeo.com/297970119 https://www.semanticaudio.ac.uk/software/ For more: Meta Tags, Algorithm, Linked Data, AI, Design, Audio, Standards Previous Next
- Benji | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Benji Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #1 31 May 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Mihee Kim | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Mihee Kim Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #2 21 June 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Andrei Abramov | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Andrei Abramov Electronics Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs London Improvisers Orchestra #38 9 July 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Mick Beck | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Mick Beck Bassoon / Tenor Sax Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Nov24 4 November 2024 Boat-Ting Oct 2025 http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Reclaiming Wisdom
Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. < Back Reclaiming Wisdom Start Time 12:00 Running Time 30 Minutes Location 9. Gravesend Library Event Type Talk About the Event Introduction Why does our education system emphasise head-based learning at the expense of the hand or the heart? What is education's ecological purpose? What is the point of human beings? Unless we find good answers to the above questions, future educators will become passive bystanders in a technological arms race between gadgets designed to fabricate the evidence of learning and gadgets designed to detect plagiarism. More on the event lead John Wood (b. 1945) is Emeritus Professor of Design at Goldsmiths College, University of London. As Deputy Head of the Fine Art Department at Goldsmiths (1978-1988) he taught many well known YBAs ('Young British Artists') before creating undergraduate and postgraduate design degrees that foregrounded ethical and environmental aspects of design's impact. These programmes helped to shape the current design department. In 2002 he co-founded the Writing-PAD Network and in 2007 launched the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice (Intellect). John's most recent book is Metadesigning Designing in the Anthropocene, (2022), Routledge, London & New York, ISBN 9781032067520. He is also an active and original member of the cult band 'Deaf School' and performs stand-up comedy as 'The Reverend Max Ripple'. Event Information This event is Free Recommended for 14+ This event is for educators, academics, policymakers, and anyone interested in reshaping education to address ecological and social challenges through holistic, community-driven approaches. ___ Even more information ___ THE UNIVERSITY IS DEAD... ...long live the networked micro-local university newschoolfutures.com whole-learning | New School Futures New School Futures Whole learning “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” E. O. Wilson, debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009 newschoolfutures.com whole-learning | New School Futures New School Futures Previous Next
- Roy Dodds | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Roy Dodds Drums Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Flimflam 30 July 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Simon Lawson | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Simon Lawson Saxophone Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #177 2 September 2025 ImproVox #03 30 September 2024 ImproVox #05 10 December 2024 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Akira | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Akira Spoken Word, Film Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs ImproVox #08 14 April 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Papermaking Drop-In
The Papermaking session was an opportunity to drop in and have a go at making a piece of handmade paper with the former head papermaker from Empire Paper Mills, Greenhithe and award-winning print artist in residence, Dawn Cole. Papermaking Drop-In < Back 28 September 2023 The Papermaking session was an opportunity to drop in and have a go at making a piece of handmade paper with the former head papermaker from Empire Paper Mills, Greenhithe and award-winning print artist in residence, Dawn Cole. Previous Next About the event Tony Thorley Tony Thorley 82, started at Empire Paper Mill (Greenhithe) in 1955, aged 15. He took Reed company's papermaking training course, which lasted for 5 years & then worked his way up through the company to become production manager. Dawn Cole Kent-based artist Dawn Cole works primarily as a printmaker using numerous techniques that utilise personal archives and national collections to explore themes of recollection, memory and memorial. Winner of the 2011 V&A Print Prize, Dawn also founded the Pushing Print Festival in Margate. Dawn was the first Artist-in-Residence in Canterbury Cathedral 1500 year history and has received several Arts Council England awards. Empire Paper Mills Background The Empire Paper Mills (formerly Ingress Abbey Paper Mills), constructed between 1906 and 1975. The Mill was located on the south bank of the Thames Estuary, in the northeastern corner of Ingress Park, the Formal Gardens and Park associated with Ingress Abbey. It closed down in 1993. The site is now being redeveloped as part of a housing development. Other points of interest: The paper making process uses vast amounts of water and to supply the mill two wells were sunk inland. One was at Greenhithe, but the main well was sunk at Southfleet, 2km inland from the mill, from which water was pumped to a holding reservoir of half a million gallons capacity, between the well and the mill. From this reservoir it was pumped into the complex as required. Fire prevention was of paramount importance, hence the steel framed structure and concrete floors. The mill was also fitted with self-closing fire doors. In addition the mill was provided with a fire pump house, hydrants, sprinklers and latterly its own fire engine, housed in a garage close to the pump house. Attention was also paid to the quality of life of the workers. A model housing estate was erected to the south of the mill, which still survives as the Knockhall estate. The mill itself was provided with catering and dining facilities, recreation grounds and gardens (although the latter are not located, the mill's position within the grounds of Ingress Park and Gardens suggest an answer to this). The Mill appears to have been plainly decorated for most of its life, although there was some evidence of a 'corporate colour scheme' of green and white, when the Mill was owned by Reed Group. ( https://webapps.kent.gov.uk/KCC.ExploringKentsPast.Web.Sites.Public/SingleResult.aspx?uid=MWX17331 ) This event series has concluded Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next


