Author: Aaron

Aaron David Polley is a Canadian-born Musician and MacAdmin based in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.

He grew up in a musical family that had a long history of accomplished musicians and songwriters. His own writing ability surfaced at the age of 7 when his first musical arrangement was used in a church service as a congregational song.

As an IT professional of 20+ years, most of his time is now leading 20+ staff at work and a family of 5 at home.

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MacAdmin

I Woke Up and I Was a SysAdmin

Hey Guys,

For those of you who don’t know, I have stumbled into a career in IT. It was completely unplanned, at first not quite welcomed, but now warmly embraced.  I worked for almost 7 years in a company where I went from being a Casual Retail Associate up to a Senior National Solutions and Support Manager.  During that time I transitioned from simple sales to complex consultation and ever increased in technical knowledge along the way. A couple years ago I made the jump to a full time “tech” role and haven’t looked back.

For those who don’t know what as SysAdmin is…. its a Systems Administration aka, person who manages IT systems.  If you are SysAdmin, excuse my explanation….

So anyway, all of this to say, I am going to start posting nerdy tech stuff because I like it and (from what people have told me) I’m good at it. Over the last couple years I have build complex workflows from the ground up and read a lot of tips and tricks from great minds like Charles Edge (http://krypted.com/) and Tim Sutton (https://macops.ca)… and of course “Googling”…

Stay tuned for some nerdy posts.

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Audio Info General News

Free and Inexpensive Audio Plugins

Hey All,

Been a while since I have wiped the dust for the electronic blogging canvas.

Here is a great company I have stumbled on that I thought would be worth sharing:

https://tal-software.com/

TAL – Togu Audio Line is a small company founded around the year 2000 and located in switzerland. We create high quality instruments and effects with a user friendly interface for reasonable pricing. Our commercial vintage synth emulations are known to be very accurate and authentic. TAL software is in use by popular producers, musicians and mentioned in different interviews.
We are not a marketing driven company and we also do not spend a lot of time into a secure copy protection systems. Our main focus is on the product itself.

Check out these great plugins, test them out, and throw a few dollars their way if you like the merch 🙂

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Audio Info General News

Peter James Productions

Hi All,

Wanted to let you know know of a great new resource from one of my friends, Peter James.  His new Peter James Productions venture has a website with great keys resource for sounds and other neat items.

Check out http://www.peterjamesproductions.com and find our more

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Inspirational

40 Days of Revival – Present In The Church

Hi Guys,

I just want to share this awesome snippet of the devotion we are doing at Hillsong Church. Here is day 5:

http://hillsongcollected.com/node/1061

These devotions have already impacted me so much in the continuing thought of being present and I know it will bless you.

//Much Love
//AP

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Audio Info General News

Great Keys Resource

Hey All,

Thought I’d share a great resource from Hillsong Collected related to keyboard patches from the latest Hillsong albums. Check it out:

http://hillsongcollected.com/creative/keyboard-soundspatchestemplates

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General News

Into The Cold

Hi Everyone,

I write from the land “up over”. I had the opportunity to take my new bride to my homeland of Canada this month to show her where I grew up.

t has been an exciting and slightly emotional time revisiting the old places of play and fellowship. I walked through my grand parents land and had flashes of old memories; a very reflective and inspiring time. Who knows what creativity this time may birth.

Another cool part of the trip has been our time with Family Worship Center. Having been a 7 year part of my spiritual growth it is always a great place to return and feel love and support. My wife and I had a great time worshiping with the rest of my family on stage praising The Lord.

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Music

Tiny Seeds Unshakable Grace

Aaron worked on this project to help record some sessions and do early production on a few tracks.  Check it out on iTunes or Spotify:

https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/tiny-seeds-unshakable-grace/id472237912

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Artists

C3 Church Thirroul

Taken from: http://c3churchthirroul.com 

Our first public meetings began in 1987 under the leadership of Peter Madden. The church first met in Thirroul Senior Citizens Hall, then to the Vista Theatre at Woonona. Prior to that time there was a small prayer group that prayed for the church for a number of years. Kevin Wilcock took over the leadership of the church, which was known as Christian Worship Centre and in 1990, the church moved to it’s present location in Thirroul where we were blessed by a great increase in numbers.

The church was pentecostal in style and chararcterized by prayer, giving and evangelism. A strong leadership structure was formed during these years and the church was one of the first to host a conference on Small Groups. We had our own ministry training college, did outreaches with a circus tent around Australia and oversighted a rehabilitation facility called the ‘House of Hope’.

Kevin handed the leadership of the Thirroul church to Joel & Julia A’Bell and commenced to plant other congregations in Wollongong. The new congregations were Wollongong Central in 1997 and Shellharbour in 1999.

In 1999, Peter & Marie Starr took over the leadership of the Thirroul congregation. The church became known as South Coast City Church Thirroul and over $200,000 was raised for a deposit for our current facility, which we soon purchased. We are now officially a part of the C3 Church movement, becoming known as C3 Church Thirroul in 2011 to reflect that association whilst maintaining our relationship with Ozreach (oversighted by Kevin Wilcock).

C3 Church Thirroul has raised and released ministers and missionaries who have left Wollongong and done great exploits for God throughout many parts of the world. We continue to see people transformed by the power of God on regular basis. We value all people because we believe that if lost people matter to God then they should also matter to the church. Our church has gained a good name through being culturally relevant and yet being in touch with God at the same time.

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Music

Girl On The Castle Steps

Here is a music project Aaron was humbly included on by Colin Mold.

Aaron collaborated on some of the music instrumentation for “Green And Gold”, one of the songs co-written by his mother, Cindy L Spear.  Check out Colin’s website:

http://www.colinmold.co.uk/

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Artists

Colin Mold

Colin Mold started with the learning Piano and then at the age of eight took up the Violin and the Guitar.After an interesting time at the London College of Music playing in some great orchestras, he has continued to write and play music. In 2003 he formed the progressive rock\folk band Kara and produced their first CD. Following this he has released two solo cds, the second working with the very talented lyricist Cindy L. Spear who has written with such people as Iona,Viv Neville and Lisa Fury. He is currently a member of Norfolk based group Magicfolk. In Spring 2012 he also toured with progressive rock band Karnataka on their New Light Tour. A new Magicfolk CD “Salterello” and a new Solo CD “Will We Ever Return” are on their way for 2013

He continues to teach,play,record and produce music

Check out: http://www.colinmold.co.uk