Yaz Lancaster

Yaz performs solo sets with violin/voice/electronics that comprise songs, improvisations, and composed music – aptly displayed on their sophomore album AFTER (PTP, 2025), created in residency at Pioneer Works. As a DJ, they frequently combine percussive and traditional musics of the global south, Black American dance genres, and hardcore kicks in high-energy club sets – and “literally anything” for the radio in fluid narrative-driven mixes. Yaz has recently performed at Dweller Forever (Public Records), Paragon, The Lot Radio, Nowadays, Trans-Pecos, Mood Ring, The Music Gallery (Toronto), and Gaudeamus Festival (Utrecht), among other spaces in NYC and internationally. Yaz additionally performs as “death ambient” and hardcore DJ b2b project “medium.” in deep collaboration with creative partner gg200bpm. They are a member of communally-active PTP artist collective; and the creator/curator of HEAVY HEARTS performance series celebrating the community and vulnerability in harsh/experimental sonics.