Our story
Our mission
Rhythm[s]myth is a concept of performance art where aural and visual mediums, music, lyric poetry, lighting, staging and video, come together and support each other in an immersive experience of our shared humanity to benefit others.
Goal of Rhythm[s]myth
- Bring glory to God
- Play great music with great people
- Connect with a wide audience to share music that exists at deeper levels
- Use my gifts and talents to develop a platform to help others
- Find like minded people who share the vision and passion to join me
- Foster a community of musicians and other talent that support each other
- Run the organization in the model of the apostolic church
The name
A multi-faceted play on words. Songwriting, at its core, is storytelling. These songs are stories — this is the book.
Rhythm
The pulse underneath everything — jazz, rock, classical, pop. Not a genre. Just music.
Smyth
Smyth sewing binds the sections of a book together. And a smith works at the forge — someone who constructs, builds, produces. Like a wordsmith. A music-smith.
[Myth]
The antiquated spelling hides the word itself: the myth that you can’t be great in one area if you’re involved in many. As Phil Woods put it — don’t be a jazz musician or a classical musician. Be a musician.
The road
so far
The Rhythm[s]myth moniker first appeared on “The Road So Far,” a record of songs written around characters from the first five seasons of Supernatural.
It returned with a jazz quintet at the Chautauqua Institution’s guest artist series, playing arrangements of classical music’s best-loved melodies — Pictures at an Exhibition, a medley of the great 9th symphonies, the 1812 Overture.
Now it’s the next phase: a full concept of aural and visual arts, where music, lyric poetry, lighting, staging, dress, video and performance art come together in an immersive experience of our shared humanity.
Meet the members
What we live by
Do more
with what
you have.
“I have always thought ‘if I had more I could do more.’ I’ve finally learned that I need to do more with what I have — and what I have is a calling, a vision, a gift for lyrics, music and show design.
I want Rhythm[s]myth to be as big as the biggest artist out there touring — and to replace my band director’s salary and leave the rest behind in every city with a designated local charity. I want to volunteer at that charity while we’re in town, and encourage fans to keep going in our absence.
I don’t want our fans to simply be fans. I want them to see themselves as part of something bigger — something we call Larger Than Live.”
— Jeffrey Scot Wills