Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20gaming] that I was a fan of and it kind of inspired me to write a piece of music. So I wrote something small and sent it to them over Twitter and then they used it on the show,” he said. “At that point, that was a small audience—300-400 people watching. Now the show gets between 2000-9000 viewers, so inevitably in the viewers, there’s going to be someone who’s starting up their own show or doing their own podcast. They need a theme, so then they contact me and contract me for a tiny little thing because they’ve heard my music in the breaks. It’s how I made my living last summer. I just lived on writing music.” One of Andrew’s fascinations with writing music is exploring different genres and combining ones that don’t normally fit together. “Like last summer, I wanted to write a full sonata, but with Game Boys. So actually having sonata form proper, proper harmony, and proper resolutions, like an A-B-A section, but with Game Boy sounds. I think that’d be fun,” he said. Andrew’s captivation with music goes back to his childhood where he started off playing drums. “I think I might’ve seen a music video or something. I wanted to be like the rock drummer,” Andrew said, “So even for like 10 years, I had the long hair and big beard and all that stuff.” After wearing out his parents’ dictionaries by drumming on them, he eventually upgraded to a real drum kit, which his parents let him buy with his paper route money. “And then along with that, [I had] to take lessons,” he explained. “It all started from that and then I spent most of my time playing in church on worship teams and on chapel teams [at Briercrest].” Growing up in a Christian home was the beginning of Andrew’s faith journey. But despite that, his faith was put to the test in high school. “I started to get away from it a little bit during high school and like in the bands,” he explained. “I mentioned earlier that I was in a stoner rock band. All the stuff that is associated with that like the drinking, marijuana and whatever— that got tiresome with the people I was interacting with. [I asked myself], if I call myself a Christian, ‘Can I still be playing this rock music?’ and [concluded that] the answer is pretty much no.” During that time, as Andrew was finishing up high school, he still wasn’t sure what he wanted to do or if he even wanted to go to school. After some encouragement from his parents and his brother, who had just returned from the Kaléo program, he reluctantly agreed to come to Briercrest for a tour in the summer. 14