William Bouchard, creatively known as w a s, is a producer and visual artist from Montreal, Canada. He started making music in February 2017, and in 2018, he started working with the vocalist MUGXTSU. In 2018, he became a member of the Bleeding Cypher collective, and in 2019, he joined the MERCENARIES collective.

w a s has worked with artists such as MUGXTSU, nAvvvi, ONI INC., Lord Distortion, and others.