About

Jo Garrity (Yayas) is a musician, audiovisual artist, filmmaker, and performer working across live A/V, music video, film, and theatre. His practice blends analogue and digital techniques to explore emotion, memory, and embodied experience.

He began making music as Yayas in a bedroom pop tradition—intimate, self-taught, and emotionally raw—rooted in voice, vulnerability, and lo-fi experimentation. The name itself comes from the one he and his identical twin called themselves until the age of six, a trace of fused identity that continues to inform his work’s hybridity and inner dialogue. That ethos carries into Self-Love Songs, his genre-defying debut LP and live A/V performance, drawing on IDM, experimental pop, and electro-gospel to reflect on grief, resilience, and intimate expression through modular synths and video synthesis.

With a background in feature film editing at Pixar Animation Studios—including assisting on Inside Out—his roots are in emotionally impactful, communally-experienced storytelling. His short film Twinsburg, a tragicomic ode to identical twinship, screened at over 50 festivals, won 10 awards, and was featured in The New York Times. He served as lead editor and assistant director on Watergate (dir. Charles Ferguson), selected by Berlinale, Telluride, and NYFF. He is currently developing The Pepsi-Cola Addict, an independent feature to be produced in Spain.

His audiovisual collaborations include In Undertow (Alvvays), with whom he toured across the U.K. and North America using a custom live A/V rig, and Morgana (Hank May), a music video for mental health and suicide prevention awareness using a virtual production environment and motion-control camera system. His visuals and installations have been commissioned by artists including Crumb and DJ Holographic (Detroit). He creates immersive, cross-disciplinary performances including Windy Bluffs, improvised radio plays captured in spatial audio, and Sunday Night at Jane’s, a stage play for Hollywood Fringe incorporating live A/V scenography.