Pianist · South Louisiana
JJ Rhymes
Jazz & Variety | Every standard a room asks for
01 / Background
Every kind
of stage.
- Bandstand
- Dependable, versatile, a music director when it's needed. One call and I'm there, ready for the gig.
- Experience
- Years backing successful wedding and variety bands up and down the circuit — party bands, corporate ballrooms, and life on the road. Solo cocktail piano to a full dance band.
- Adaptable
- Reads the cues, reads the charts, and fits right into any gig or stage.
- Study
- Three years of jazz & classical music education at ULL.
02 / Booking
Book a live set.
Solo cocktail piano to a full dance band, shaped to the room. Check my open dates and send the details.
Open the calendar
LAFAYETTE, LA · 30.22°N 92.02°W
JJ
RHYMES
SOFTWARE BUILDER /// PIANIST
Self-taught, shipping real software. Full-stack web, AI systems, and MIDI/audio tooling. Below is the index.
- SHIPPED APPS
- 6
- STACK DEPTH
- FULL
- AI / LLM
- YES
- SELF-TAUGHT
- 100%
I build the tools
I wish existed.
SYNTONIA
All-in-one software for music studios: live MIDI lessons in the browser, courses, scheduling, payments, under the teacher's own brand.
MNESTIA
A brain for your AI — durable memory, real build modules, and a workflow you fully own.
LYSIA
Drop any song in. Get isolated stems, chord transcription, lead sheets, lyrics, and a full mixer — all on your GPU.
SKENIA
A live-performance VST3 host and a custom Linux environment. Node graph, scene switching, MIDI learn, and SkeniaOS.
MORPHEIA
A multi-track motion graphics editor. Text, shapes, video, Lottie animations — keyframe everything, export to WebM.
POIESIA
A game engine from scratch. Vulkan and OpenGL rendering, entity-component architecture, physics, and a visual scene editor. Free.
What your AI
brain looks like.
An Obsidian-styled preview >>
More than a website builder — a fully customizable brain your agent reloads every session: modules, concepts, and workflow you own, on your own machine. $10/mo for the app, everything included. Grab a node and move it.
- JAVASCRIPT
- PHP
- NODE
- PYTHON
- C++
- RUST
- JUCE
- VULKAN
- OPENGL
- WEB MIDI
- AI / LLM
- CUDA
- TAURI
- ARCH LINUX
- OBSIDIAN
Photographer · South Louisiana
Through
the Lens
Digital and analog. A Sony A7IV for the sharp and intentional, a Nikon Coolpix L11 for the Y2K nostalgia, and a Kodak Ektar H35 for the grain and the ghosts. Film developed and processed at home.
01 / Digital
Sharp &
intentional.
Full-frame digital on the Sony A7IV with a 28–70mm lens. Portraits, live music, landscapes, and anything the light is doing something worth catching.
02 / Film & Darkroom
Half-frame
film.
Kodak Ektar H35. Two exposures per frame, developed and scanned at home. C-41 color and black & white.
Drag to scroll · Kodak Ektar H35 · Half-frame 35mm
Kodak Ektar H35 · Half-frame 35mm · Home-developed C-41 & B&W
03 / Gear
What I
shoot with.
Lighting & Studio
Bar Light
RGB LED bar for accent & fill
Greenscreen
Chroma key backdrop for compositing
Sunpak 40W
Continuous LED panel light
Pianist first.
Builder now.
The piano has been the constant since I was ten: study, teaching, and 600+ gigs. Lately I've been putting that same obsession into software, building the tools I wished existed as a working musician. New to that side, and going all in.
See the code side >>Musician.
Photographer.
I shoot digital on a Sony A7IV, retro-digital on a Nikon Coolpix L11, and film on a Kodak Ektar H35. Film gets developed and scanned at home. Most of the work is live music, portraits, and whatever the light is doing in South Louisiana. The camera goes where the gigs go.
See the music side >>Builder.
Pianist.
Solo developer building the tools I wished existed as a working musician. Everything from Electron apps to custom Linux audio rigs. The same obsession that drove 600+ gigs now goes into shipping software.