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Welcome to PRØCESS STØRIES

Process Stories are multimedia notes on discovery by Amateur Blonde.
Periodically created by LICRYNO, uploaded here and on YouTube. 
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Process Stories will return to life once Ryno is settled in Korea (summer 2022) 

⬇ The latest PS episode ⬇

A Message from RYNO

"Thank you for all the love and support. Process Stories continues to evolve with my songwriting. I've always wanted to share more than my songs with the world and this is proving to be the right vehicle for me”

WHAT HAPPENS HERE: 
• Talk about song-making & AB news
• Interviews with other musicians
• Music & Video Creation

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PRØCESS STØRIES

Dec 10 2021

25 • DEC 9 2021 • VIDEO • "NO WORRIES 2021 YEAR END STATS - THANK YOU" 🎬 • 4 MINS

Show #25 - December 9 2021 - First off, many apologies that I've fallen off the radar with the podcast. I've had to re-access the value and execution of a weekly audio/visual log of my creative work. I am working…

Mar 7 2021

22 • March 7 2021 • Video "AB on the BBC" 🎬 3 mins 

Show #22 • March 7 2021 - Hearken back to when the BBC did a piece on our band. Apologies to the Beatles...

Mar 3 2021

20 • MAR 3 2021 • Audio "Intervalmeters & Time + Matto BDAY track" 🗣🎙22 mins 

Matthew O'Toole BDay (track at end) - With all trips to a storage unit, nostalgia pours in. RYNO drops some 16mm film knowledge. This time, it's for the 1000s of hours I spent studying and learning motion film production and...

Feb 23 2021

18 • FEB 23 2021 • Video "Essential Motion Graphics" 🗣🎙🎬 15 mins PRØCESS STØRIES 

In this post, RYNO struggles with Premiere Pro's ESSENTIAL MOTION GRAPHICs trying to make a video for his song 'Sobriquet'. Get into key-framing titles and tell RYNO what he's doing wrong...

...for the love of Pete, he needs help being…

Feb 8 2021

12 • Feb 8 2021 • Video • "TWD is official, OMG" 🎬🗣🎙 • 7 mins • DECLASSIFIED 

LICRYNO reveals the big news (this was recorded on FEB 8 2021, released now because the news was CLASSIFIED) about his song being put into The Walking Dead and talks about losing faith in his music.

 

Feb 5 2021

10 • Feb 5 2021 • TALK • "Day 3 Drum Tracking NW2 32 takes total" 🗣🎙 7 mins «DECLASSIFIED» 

FEB 5 2021 - RYNO laments how difficult the task of videoing himself while recording really is, makes excuses for 32 takes of drums, and reveals a huge discovery in the process...(click for audio file)...

Feb 4 2021

9 • Feb 4 2021 • TALK • "Day 2 Drum Tracking, 12 takes not yet right" 🗣🎙 • 5 mins «DECLASSIFIED» 

FEB 4 2021 DAY 2 drum tracking. 12 more takes. Ryno complains a bit about how frustrating it is to have to set off 2 cameras before every take, but then... (click to continue)

Feb 3 2021

8 • Feb 3 2021 • TALK • "DAY 1 Drums & Lighting" 🗣🎙 • 4 mins «DECLASSIFIED» 

Feb 3 2021 - A quick 4 minutes with Ryno. After setting up the drums on JAN 27, Ryno finally found time to cut some initial tracks on No Worries 2, but the experience proved... (click to listen)

Jan 27 2021

7 • JAN 27 2021 • Video • "No Worries 2 Rough Demo + Drum Mic Setup" 12 mins DECLASSIFIED 

This was an epic day. I was able to get a basic demo recorded of No Worries II, based on my audio 'sketches' (click for Video below) 

Jan 26 2021

6 • JAN 26 2021 • TALK • "Finally, Another Podcaster" 🗣🎙 • 10 mins «DECLASSIFIED» 

JAN 26 2021 - RYNO ponders making this into a full blown podcast. He wonders... (click to read on + audio file)

Jan 22 2021

5 • JAN 22 2021 • TALK • "RYNO the Decider" 🗣🎙 5 mins «DECLASSIFIED» 

JAN 22 2021 FRIDAY - LICRYNO finalizes his plans to re-record No Worries PART 2 and reflects on the original recording of No Worries in 2012.

Jan 15 2021

4 • JAN 15 2021 • TALK • “MANPLAININ' in the PANDO” 🗣🎙 9 mins «DECLASSIFIED» 

JAN 15 2021 - LICRYNO briefly elucidates to you, in a very masculine way. HAHAHA. Seriously, I'm aware it's happening, but can I truly help myself? RYNO also talks briefly about... (click for more) 

Jan 13 2021

3 • JAN 13 2021 • Talk • “Big mouth shut? Don’t they know me?” 🗣🎙 • 4 mins «DECLASSIFIED» 

Originally Recorded JAN 10 2021 - LICRYNO has had a week to process the potential new news and ponders what to do, artistically and practically. As it turns out, (click for audio file)...

Jan 10 2021

2 • Jan 10 2021 • Talk • "F is for Potential News" 🗣🎙 • 5 mins «DECLASSIFIED» 

JAN 10 2021 - In this (AUDIO) PRØCESS STØRY, LIC RYNO proves he doesn’t know how to handle potential good news and worries about jinxing a... (click to hear) 

Jan 8 2021

1 • JAN 8 2021 • VIDEO • "What Are PRØCESS STØRIES?" 🎬🗣🎙 1 min 

PRØCESS STØRIES are multimedia posts that chronicle the musical creation process of a ŁIC RYNØ - a DIY Musician & Recording Artist who has a band called Amateur Blonde, from Long Island City, NY. 

Jan 7 2021

0 • JAN 7 2021 • TALK • "United States of Exhaustion" • 🗣🎙 • 4 mins «DECLASSIFIED» 

JAN 7 2021 • It's 4am and after watching and reading all the news on planet earth about the Capitol insurrection, I opened my email to find INCREDIBLY GOOD NEWS, well, potentially I guess... (click on image)

 

 

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PS EXPLAINED

'NO WORRIES' STATS!

Since March 25th 2021, 'No Worries' has become our all time, most popular song.
It was featured in AMC's The Walking Dead S10xE21 (at the end).
Not bad for the 'little b-side that could'! 
For those of you who are curious, here are the naked statistics on 'No Worries as of: APRIL 12, 2022:

YouTube 'Lyric Video' views = 84,263 

Spotify & Apple Music Streams = 592,317 

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