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- Julian Woods | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Julian Woods Guitar / Microtonal Guitar / Double Bass / Conductor Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs London Improvisers Orchestra #39 28 September 2025 London Improvisers Orchestra #38 9 July 2025 London Improvisers Orchestra #37 8 March 2025 London Improvisers Orchestra #36 7 June 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Alan Wilkinson | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Alan Wilkinson Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Reeds Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #2 21 June 2016 Flimflam 28 May 2025 Flimflam 25 June 2025 Flimflam 30 July 2025 Flimflam 24 September 2025 FlimFlam 29 October 2025 ImproVox #11 29 September 2025 Load More Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Gina Fergione | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Gina Fergione Vocals 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 London Improvisers Orchestra #36 7 June 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Jim Dvorak | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Jim Dvorak Trumpet Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Feb19 4 February 2019 Boat-Ting Feb 2019 http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Nathan Greywater | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Nathan Greywater Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #176 15 July 2025 SKRONK #177 2 September 2025 SKRONK #178 16 September 2025 SKRONK #175 1 July 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Funki Porcini Laserium Friday
Over 350 attendees queued at the Fourth Portal during the Gravesham Light Festival to experience Funki Porcini's 10-minute Laserium taster. Reviews described the experience as calming, relaxing, and incredibly immersive, with some likening it to being fired into space. Funki Porcini Laserium Friday < Back 26 January 2024 Over 350 attendees queued at the Fourth Portal during the Gravesham Light Festival to experience Funki Porcini's 10-minute Laserium taster. Reviews described the experience as calming, relaxing, and incredibly immersive, with some likening it to being fired into space. Previous Next The Laserium is an 800-laser rig built by composer, musician, and artist James Braddell, better known as Funki Porcini. A fully immersive experience, the Laserium was the Fourth Portal's contribution to the opening night of the Gravesham Light Festival 2024. More than 350 people queued around neighbouring Bawley Beach, entering the Fourth Portal Lab in groups of 20-30 throughout the evening to experience a 10-minute taster. Inside the darkened church, lasers danced off mirrors and glass, pulsing in perfect synchrony with the music of the Ninja Tune veteran. Laserium Friday Reviews The free event drew the youngest children, the eldest attendees, and all ages in between. Responses varied, with younger visitors describing the performance as calming and relaxing, while older audiences found it exciting and immersive. The full one-hour immersive show took place on Sunday, 28 January 2024 - click here A discussion with Laserium collaborators Andy Payne and Nicky Cure, who built the Crawley Bots robots and the laser system, was held on Sunday, 28 January 2024 afternoon. Read more about the talk here . https://video.wixstatic.com/video/2fcede_eae68ee738a14787b158e26457f9f609/360p/mp4/file.mp4 . Laserium Friday Reviews Gravesham Light Festival Continues The Gravesham Light Festival continued on Saturday, 27 January 2024, with expanded capacity at the Fourth Portal to welcome more than 450 visitors. Our neighbour, Lightship LV21 hosted a light installation and shadow show, adding to the festival’s vibrant atmosphere. Who is Funki Porcini? James Braddell, aka Funki Porcini, is a British electronic music provocateur and humourist, a defining artist of Ninja Tune’s early years. His work blends surreal jazz, found noise, synthetic textures, and dreamlike logic. The name Funki Porcini plays on Funghi Porcini, the Italian name for the Boletus edulis mushroom, commonly known as penny bun. He spent ten years in Italy composing for film and television before returning to England, where he signed with Ninja Tune in 1994 and set up his own studio, The Uterus Goldmine. Find out more about Funki Porcini on Ninja Tune. The Lasers and the Rig For insights into the lasers and the process behind this incredible rig, visit Funki’s Bandcamp. https://video.wixstatic.com/video/2fcede_09707a25f9a6486199ad6c34413dfac4/1080p/mp4/file.mp4 Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next
- Iris Ederer | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Iris Ederer Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #5 9 August 2016 SKRONK #1 31 May 2016 SKRONK #2 21 June 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- The Laserium
Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. < Back The Laserium Start Time 19:00 Running Time 120 Minutes with interval Location 2. St George's Church Hall Event Type Performance About the Event Introduction Transforming Sound Into Light A fully immersive experience as 800 lasers dance across mirrors and glass in response to the pulsating music of Ninja Tunes legend, Funki Porcini. What to expect Viewers will be immersed in screen filled with pulsating lights from 800 lasers passing through various glass objects, including ashtrays and bottles. Each laser is reacting to the pulsating sounds and music written and produced by Funki Porcini, which will fill this church hall to the ceiling. The lasers and rig To learn more about the lasers and the process involved in creating this incredible rig, visit Funki's blog. More on the event lead Who is Funki Porcini? James Brandell, aka Funki Porcini, is a British music provocateur and humorist of the early Ninja Tunes period. Mixing together surreal jazz, found noise, synthetic strangeness and dream logic. "Funki Porcini" is a twist on "Funghi Porcini", the Italian name of 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. Event Information This event is ticketed in advance The Laserium - 7:00pm Showing - Please arrive 30 minutes early General Admission £9.90 - (Ticket price: £9.00, Booking fee: £0.90) Concessions £7.70 - (Ticket price: £7.00, Booking fee: £0.70) Family Price - 2 adults + 2 Children 16 or under £22.00 - (Ticket price: £20.00 + Booking fee: £2.00) Buy Tickets Here: https://wegottickets.com/event/635035 See Button Below to by tickets ___ Licensed bar | Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult Warning: Contains flashing lights | Loud Music Physical Disability? Please email us in advance so we can seek to make provision for your disability. info@fourthportal.com Tickets Please support local events by only buying concessions if you are low-paid, a student, not in employment or for other reasons. We have a £20 family ticket to encourage families to enjoy the experience - 2 adults and 2 children. ___ Even more information ___ Funki's Blog https://funkiporcini.net/things/news/the-laserium/ Even more... More about Funki Porcini can be found on here Buy Tickets Here https://wegottickets.com/event/635035 This event is being updated Previous Next
- Ernesto Bohorquez | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Ernesto Bohorquez 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
- Fourth Portal
VIRTUAL Welcome to our virtual social Lucia House and workplace Airmeet conference and learning platform. Lucia House The rooms are perfect for social gatherings, workshops, informal meetings, book and poetry reading and more. Hover over each room for more information. We have 28 rooms in our virtual house are Beta testing throughout 2023 with a third season of the Discussion Festival. read more Airmeet Pavillion Fourth Portal is a new social space blending cafe bar workspace with retail and education both in the real world and virtual. Our Airmeet Pavilion and cafe are for more formal meetings, workshops and teaching and are perfect for online gatherings in excess of 20 people or more. Clients include universities, charities and the Discussion Festival. read more FOURTH PORTAL | VIRTUAL Welcome to our virtual social Lucia House and workplace Airmeet conference and learning platform. more A glimpse into the future of hybrid work ing, education, performance, socialising and shopping - pop by for a tour Next Fourth Portal Lucia House viewing To be announced The house is closed ** Not yet mobile phone compatible Read More Join the Discussion Festive
- Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) | FourthPortal
< Back Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) are a technique that generates 3D representations of an object or scene from 2D images by using advanced machine learning. NeRFs show incredible promise in representing 3D data more efficiently than other techniques. Tech Target/Wikipedia 6 Jan 2024 Neural radiance fields (NeRFs)technique involves encoding the entire object or scene into an artificial neural network, which predicts the light intensity -- or radiance -- at any point in the 2D image to generate novel 3D views from different angles. NeRFs show incredible promise in representing 3D data more efficiently than other techniques and could unlock new ways to generate highly realistic 3D objects automatically. Used with other techniques, NeRFs have incredible potential for massively compressing 3D representations of the world from gigabytes to tens of megabytes. NeRFs can be used to generate 3D models of objects as well as for rendering 3D scenes for video games and for virtual and augmented reality environments. Google has already started using NeRFs to translate street map imagery into immersive views in Google Maps. From Wikipedia A neural radiance field (NeRF) is a method based on deep learning for reconstructing a three-dimensional representation of a scene from sparse two-dimensional images. The NeRF model can learn the scene geometry, camera poses, and the reflectance properties of objects, allowing it to render photorealistic views of the scene from novel viewpoints. First introduced in 2020,[1] it has since gained significant attention for its potential applications in computer graphics and content creation.[2] Algorithm[edit] The NeRF encodes the scene as a volumetric function optimized by a fully connected deep neural network (DNN). NeRF can predict a volume density and view-dependent emitted radiance given the spatial location (x, y, z) and viewing direction in Euler angles (θ, Φ) of the camera. By sampling many points along camera rays, traditional volume rendering techniques can produce an image.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_radiance_field https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/definition/neural-radiance-fields-NeRF For more: NeRF, Neural Network, AI, Machine Learning, VR, 3D Visualisation, Algorithm Previous Next
- Julia Brüssel | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Julia Brüssel Violin Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Nov24 4 November 2024 ImproVox #10 30 June 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number



