Song for my project Ways in Waves
Written/recorded/produced by me
Vocals by Sean Sonego and myself
Lyrics:

"Honestly
Never read
What you write back
Blended in
With the man
And news

Now you feel
Suddenly
Made of wax or
Polymer
Act it out
Like me

When you sit
And you eat
You make rare meat
Out of kids
Made from string
And dreams

But I think
It's on them
Self-defense
They are so
Far away
From me

Under and ocean
Songs of devotion
Sleeping with circuits
Suffrage and organs"

The whole thing is about the feeling that no matter what I do, I'll be hurting someone. The first verse is about what I say and how reviewing the way in which I phrase things, double checking my own views, and trying to not offend anyone, feels pointless. When writing this I felt that I can't ever feel informed enough to have an opinion on anything, or that I have the right to have an opinion in the first place. 

Second verse is about feeling fake. Sometimes I feel that I change my personality depending on who I'm talking to and that I don't actually have my own at the end of the day, just a bunch of surface level faces.

Third is about the damage of eating a meal, or buying a pair of shoes. I was still contemplating vegetarianism, at the time and had more and more difficulty justifying eating meat to myself. But still, I did. "Kids made of string" = sweatshops. I went to sport check to get shoes for an upcoming trip to Japan and found myself looking up which companies use sweatshops... And thought about how fucking easy it is for me to buy a pair of shoes, or eat something that feels pain, and how I've been aware of these things my whole life and haven't felt bad about them, and still didn't feel bad when I confronted myself with these issues head on. Well, at first at least...

The fourth verse demonstrates the mental deflection and intellectual laziness that comes up after one faces these inward accusations of immorality. 

Last bit is about how overwhelming the number of "devotions" I have is. I mean devotions to ideologies, and how convoluted things get when you consider everything you believe to be right at once. I valued all life, but understood that animals eat animals. I wouldn't eat a dog, but I would eat an octopus. I wouldn't eat a cat, but I would eat a pig. I was okay with eating chickens because they're dumb, but I wouldn't eat a mentally handicapped human, so I was speciesist AND intellectualist. 

"Sleeping with circuits..." Means "having sex with circuits". Allowing the advances in technology change my life despite how I feel about how ethically the technology is conceived. "Suffrage" = I feel that my ideals are the popular ones. They never used to be, and I wonder if I have gained or lost perspective on what is right and wrong. "Organs" = people.

Hurting Other People - Ways In Waves

Written/Recorded/Produced by myself for my project Ways In Waves
Modular synthesis on this track was done by my band mate Murray Cameron Smith! He controls Ableton Live for me when we perform (I'm also forcing him to play guitar at the same time now, haha)
This one is about a couple of vivid dreams that have stuck with me for a long time.

Spark - Ways In Waves

My good friend Mike Plouffe wrote a tune for a video game that he's been working on (Ultimate Dino Death Duel) and asked me to produce it for him. So I took for 6 MIDI files he gave me and did this with it. I also recorded some guitars including a wanky solo and and eight string riffing toward the end. This was really fun to work on and I hope to do more of this in the future! Check out the game here:
http://grenchorne.itch.io/uddd

Awake, Awake - Mike Plouffe

Link to the music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-TEdE7NF58

Written by myself, recorded and produced with Shaquille Headley in his bedroom and at MacEwan University in Edmonton, AB.

As with the previous songs that I've written for my project "Ways In Waves", Shelter got its name from the purpose it served in my life. For a while it was the only distraction I had from a lot of negative things that were going on. 

Shelter - Ways In Waves

Song for my project Ways in Waves
Written/recorded/produced by me
Vocals by Sean Sonego and myself
Lyrics:

"Honestly
Never read
What you write back
Blended in
With the man
And news

Now you feel
Suddenly
Made of wax or
Polymer
Act it out
Like me

When you sit
And you eat
You make rare meat
Out of kids
Made from string
And dreams

But I think
It's on them
Self-defense
They are so
Far away
From me

Under and ocean
Songs of devotion
Sleeping with circuits
Suffrage and organs"

Braine