Around Cairns

15/11/2022

Itchy Studios Grumpy Grans is the first release of the Grumpy Grannies and Grandads, a collection of Generative NFTs. Check them out at https://grumpygrans.art

19/11/2021

Sometimes it is difficult to be a child...Sometimes it is exceedingly difficult to be a cyber safe child.
Free SCCISP Campus Cyber Safe Childhood Course
This course is designed to assist parents, family members and significant others, in skilling up on the many challenges and risks facing safe and secure internet usage. The awareness of such challenges is especially relevant for young people who often through their innocence lack the skills to identify the obvious warning signs of suspicious online behavior.
https://sccisp.org/course/11/about

This course is designed to assist parents, family members and significant others, in skilling up on the many challenges and risks facing safe and secure internet usage. The awareness of such challenges is especially relevant for young people who often through their innocence lack the skills to ident...

25/10/2020

FREE COURSE: Cyber Safe Childhood
https://www.sccisp.org/course/11/about

This course is designed to assist parents, family members and significant others, in  skilling up on the many challenges and risks facing safe and secure internet usage. The awareness of such challenges is especially relevant for young people who often through their innocence lack the skills to ide...

13/10/2020

SCCISP 5G Security Course

SCCISP 5G Security Course https://sccisp.org

16/06/2020

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Hi guys, my name is Hannah. I am the owner of Leo, a 3 year old, curio… Hannah Mihalic needs your support for Helping Leo to have surgery he desperately needs

30/04/2020

Are you an artist, performer,muso, dancer, writer, generally creative person with a bad streak? Well, we are looking to spread the Around Cairns word. The idea is to use our wide base to promote creative and interesting stuff around Cairns. we wisjh to pomote self employed people who have some interesting to offer.
If you would like to become a page manager and share relevant and creative posts please drop us a message. (let us know what you are interested in promoting) Please no bu****it posts that have nothing to do with the intention of the page. If you do such bad things you will be hunted down and extensively mocked and punished.

18/06/2019

In the latest Privacy Matters Podcast Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) CEO Greg Hallam talks to Nicole Stephensen about the importance of data in a smart city environment, the LGAQ's 'Data Ethics Framework' and the imperative for municipal governments to build and maintain citizen trust.

Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) CEO Greg Hallam talks about the importance of data in a smart city environment, the LGAQ's 'Data Ethics Framework' and the imperative for municipal governments to build and maintain citizen trust.

02/04/2019

Privacy Matters Podcast

08/12/2018

Great new emerging artists website
www.forhercollective.com

For Her Collective is an online diverse, international space for female creators. Featuring and interviewing women from across the world with the hope to inspire one another

24/10/2018

22/10/2018

Abbey introduces the IoT Security Institute and explains current IoTSI activities.

01/10/2018

The Internet of Things Security Institute is a Not for Profit academic and industry body dedicated to providing frameworks and supporting educational servi...

12/09/2018

https://iotsecurityinstitute.com/iotsec/index.php/podcasts/sermon/27-understanding-what-is-personal-in-an-iot-context

In our introductory podcast in the Privacy Matters series, we talked broadly about what privacy is… and set the stage for further discussion about the opportunities privacy best practice can present in an Internet of Things (IoT) eco-system.

05/08/2018

05/08/2018

New Post: Smart Music Creation https://buff.ly/2J99R1l

What’s meant by “Smart Music Creation”?

“Smart” often means that technology has been added to something that previously had not had it.
With ‘music’, the term ‘digital‘ has been used for the distribution of consumer music in a ‘digital form‘ – Audio-CD, mini-discs, DAT and later the revolution of online distribution through the iTunes Music Store.
‘Smart Music Creation‘ could perhaps be considered to be where computerized devices help with the creation of music – the synthesizer, the drum machine, and MIDI generally. Drum Machines and Synthesizers are really new musical instruments lending themselves to new musical sounds and therefore new genres of music. That’s not smart really, it is just a different type of instrument.
Enter – Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
The MIDI platform has been around for 30 years or more and deserves the name ‘Smart’. It automates the playing of the instruments by encoding and reproducing the act of playing
that note,
on that instrument
with that intensity
precisely at that time.
That’s not just a new type of instrument, it is a way of codifying the playing of any and all instruments. Complete orchestral scores have been codified and rendered with MIDI. Great performances have been captured using MIDI recording. MIDI doesn’t have to mean sub-standard music – it can, if used with care, mean superb musicianship and great music production. Unfortunately, too many substandard performances have been codified and rendered with MIDI, leading to bad experiences and a bad reputation for the technology.
Enablement versus Truly Smart Music Creation
MIDI is a great enabler.
We shouldn’t blame MIDI for what we have, and haven’t, done with it over the last 3 decades. For truly ‘Smart Music’ what we need is to go further, more intimately marrying technology with music production.
The innovator – Band-In-A-Box

The first, mass-adoption innovation from MIDI was the song-based accompaniment application – PG Music’s “Band-In-A-Box” available on PCs and Macs. This delivered on its promise of providing tailored accompaniment for songs. It helps students understand the form of the songs they play and to provide backing music for enjoying and learning new songs. Importantly, the interface or ‘language’ of the application is that of traditional music notation and concepts. It doesn’t rewrite musical terminology, it adopts it and extends what can be done with it. Band-In-A-Box truly is Smart Music Creation.

The Innovator’s dominance of the market
Band-In-A-Box has grown and grown over that time to a massive application with every conceivable feature – a real tour de force of software development.
The development of Long-form Audio complementing MIDI
Band-In-A-Box even addresses the sound-quality issue of the MIDI instruments by including high-quality, long-form audio – “Real Drums” and other “Real Instruments” where the audio is much longer-form than a single MIDI instrument ‘note’ as described earlier. This leads to much more satisfying backing music. It is high-quality, truly Smart Music Creation – which comes at a cost though. Not only the dollar cost for the software application and audio library but using the application takes considerable commitment to master and PC and Mac workstations aren’t always convenient for the world’s 10% that are musicians.
The Convenience and Ubiquity of Mobility
Perhaps the spiritual reincarnation of the original Band-In-A-Box application is realized for mobile devices in the form of Technimo’s iRealPro app. It’s a deservedly popular app, albeit with standard MIDI note sounds rather than long-form audio of ‘real instruments’. Now the world’s 10% of musicians, if they have a mobile device, can get very convenient song-based backing music through iRealPro. That’s great news for a generation of musicians. The cause of Truly Smart Music Creation is evolving.
The Opportunities to Advance Smart Music Production
There are opportunities to go further, to appeal to an even greater proportion of musicians with even more approachable technology marrying music production and technology. If we also can improve the quality and musicianship of the delivery, while reducing those complexities that are barriers to adoption, perhaps we can get closer to that mobile-carrying portion of the 10% of the world’s population that are musicians. Mobile devices are unlikely to provide the same results achievable with today’s desktop workstation that leverage long-form audio libraries requiring terabytes of data and masses of computing power, but innovations in client-server solutions are possible where the same quality of results could be achieved by supplying finished productions to the mobile devices from cloud services. There are other opportunities as well to improve the user-interfaces so that less experienced musicians and less adept mobile app

30/06/2018

https://iotsecurityinstitute.com/iotsec/index.php

The Internet of Things Security Institute is a Not for Profit academic and industry body dedicated to providing frameworks and supporting educational services to assist in managing security within an Internet of Things eco-system.

26/06/2018

https://iotsecurityinstitute.com

14/05/2018

08/05/2018

The men of the Fifth World (full documentary)

The aboriginal culture of Australia, includes a large number of tribes inhabiting the oceanic continent before the arrival of the white man. But all t...

08/05/2018

http://ozpeople.org/ozpeople/chunky-movies-ngv_e73e76f02.html

Chunky Movies -NGV...

08/05/2018

Giuseppe Verdi skilfully combines the triumphant celebration of life with a tragic and heart-rending love story by Alexandre Dumas. This is one of the...

07/05/2018

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

http://ozpeople.org/ozpeople/strings-attached-australian-dance-party-with-canberra-symphony-orchestra_d084843f4.html

\"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.\" - Friedrich NietzscheExcerpts of \'Stri...

06/05/2018

http://ozpeople.org/ozpeople/seinfeld-take-over-australian-parliament-hilarious-comedy-skit_a88d1aadf.html

How about this amazing skit, Jerry Seinfield and the gang take over Australian Parliament. So funny you will wet your pants....

05/05/2018

Featuring interviews with Australian choreographer Marko Panzic, YouTube sensation Miranda Sings & Bob Fosse biographer Sam Wasson....

05/05/2018

BE YOUR SELF TOURING:Salihara Festival 11 & 12 October 2014 Info/tickets: http://salihara.org/en/event/2014/08/25/be-your-self...

05/05/2018

1990: World Tour with Australian Tourist Commission, Qantas and Ansett to lead Australia\'s tourism recovery giving 58 shows in 60 days on four contin...

05/05/2018

Burlesque through the eyes of Minsky Malone...

05/05/2018

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Olympia Ellul - Painter...

05/05/2018

http://ozpeople.org/ozpeople/the-captain-matchbox-whoopee-band-wangaratta-wahine_13bff1a4f.html

The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band - Wangaratta Wahine (Countdown, 1975)...

05/05/2018