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All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Stuart Wilding Percussion Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #177 2 September 2025 SKRONK #178 16 September 2025 ImproVox #09 19 May 2025 ImproVox #06 5 February 2025 ImproVox #08 14 April 2025 Load More Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs David Lee Morgan Poetry 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

Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. < Back Large Language Start Time 16:00 Running Time 3 Hours Location 14. The Grand GYG Event Type Participation About the Event Introduction Join hosts Anthony Hart (Poetic Flaws/Floors), Joe Cleary (Hypermedia) and Zack Davies (Holy Moly) for a freeform afternoon of poetry and technology. Activities include: - Read your poems on the theme of A.I. and technology in our open mic section - Get your poems remixed into a whole new work by a live A.I. - Live taste test: Can you tell A.I. poems from the real thing? Discuss the difference in our live symposium - Have your say about A.I.'s influence on poetry and the arts in our public survey. More on the event lead Event Information Entry is free No booking is required Spectators and participants are welcome at any time while the event is running. This event is perfect for poets, writers, and creative minds curious about the intersection of technology and the arts. It’s also ideal for anyone who wants to explore how AI is shaping creativity, whether through open mic performances, live AI remixes, or thought-provoking discussions. If you’re passionate about poetry or interested in how technology is influencing artistic expression, this is a good one for you. ___ Even more information ___ Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Benedict Taylor Viola Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Sep18 3 September 2018 Boat-Ting Feb19 4 February 2019 Boat-Ting Jan23 9 January 2023 Boat-Ting Sep24 2 September 2024 Boat-Ting Nov24 4 November 2024 Boat-Ting Oct25 6 October 2025 ImproVox #09 19 May 2025 Load More Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

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

Hypermedia returned for Day One of a BIG WEEKEND of DIY poetry, spoken word, music, open mic, visuals, artist talks and discussion. Curated by Gravesend's very own Hypermedia Events. Hypermedia DIY Open Space 4 < Back 2 December 2023 Hypermedia returned for Day One of a BIG WEEKEND of DIY poetry, spoken word, music, open mic, visuals, artist talks and discussion. Curated by Gravesend's very own Hypermedia Events. Previous Next About the event Gravesend's very own Hypermedia presented the first full weekend series of DIY poetry, spoken word, music, open mic and discussion at the Fourth Portal Lab. Instigated by local Gravesend artists Hypermedia, this is an open emerging format pushing the boundaries of open mic. Welcoming to all ages and stages of the creative journey, the weekend offered a relaxed space to perform or listen in an informal atmosphere, attracting a wide and varied range of presentations and crossed all generations. Licenced bar. Event was free, although donations of a suggested were welcome. For more, contact Harriet and Joe from Hypermedia. Harriet: https://www.instagram.com/h.rriet/ Joe: https://www.instagram.com/_existencil This is an ongoing event series Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

Fourth Portal events explore the connections between tradition, retro technology and human habits and advanced innovations, AI and new ways of working, shopping and learning. VIEW AT A GLANCE VIEW IN DETAIL No events at the moment Fourth Portal @ St Andrews Art Centre, Royal Pier Road, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 2BD (Map ) Events Begin Click to see full event archive Fourth Portal @ St Andrews Art Centre, Gravesend, DA12 2BD Anchor 1

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