Jay Haze [1] is an American recording artist from Avoca, Pennsylvania.
He records under monikers The Architect, Subversions, The Hoffman Ensemble, Bearback and Fuckpony.
[2] He had no formal training in music and does not play an instrument.
Jay co-founded TuningSpork, Contexterrior and the now defunct Textone.org [3] with Bjoern Hartmann in the early 2000s