Photay is Evan Shornstein, an electronic musician from Woodstock, New York, who balances analog and digital recordings in a broader mix of organic and synthetic sounds. His acclaimed full-length debut, Onism, appeared in 2017 and featured an appearance by Madison McFerrin. Waking Hours, a mix of art-pop and dance music, followed in 2020, and Photay also produced ambient works such as the 2021 Carlos Niño collaboration An Offering. Windswept, a heavily collaborative mixture of jazz instrumentation and electronic beats and textures, appeared in 2024. Shornstein additionally coll...