Photay
also plays Berlin — 1 night
Photay is the solo musical endeavor of Evan Shornstein, hailing from the lush and peaceful evergreen valley of Woodstock, NY. Having been introduced to Aphex Twin at the tender age of 9, he quickly began to embrace music in all of its forms. This early inspiration provided a foundation for his musical growth in drumming, turntablism and eventually composition.
Years later, after an eye-opening trip to Guinea, West Africa, Photay was born. Combining his newly acquired knowledge of polyrhythmic percussion and years of experimenting with sampling and field recordings, he went on to create and self-release his first project under the alias. Seamlessly combining a variety of audio sources and techniques, Photay’s sound is a balancing act of analog and digital, of natural and synthetic. It is not designed exclusively for headphones nor the dancefloor, but is genuinely at home in both contexts.
Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.
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Records out on Astro Nautico. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
2025
- Fri 25 Jul 2025Good Roomfirst time
- Thu 9 Jan 2025public recordstheir 3rd night
2024 — 3 nights
- Fri 30 Aug 2024The Abode of the Messagefirst time · Shaker Mountain
- Fri 22 Mar 2024H0L0first time · H0L0 NYC
- Sat 16 Mar 2024Eavesdropfirst time
2023 — 4 nights
- Sat 30 Dec 2023The Avalon Loungefirst time
- Sun 12 Nov 2023public recordstheir 2nd night
- Thu 9 Nov 2023public recordsfirst time
- Sat 2 Sep 2023Black Flamingofirst time
Their rooms
One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.
- public recordsNov 2023 – Jan 20253 nights
Once each: Good Room, The Abode of the Message, H0L0, Eavesdrop, The Avalon Lounge and Black Flamingo.
Who they play with
Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.
- ToribioBlack Flamingo ×1, Good Room ×1, and 1 more room · Sep 2023 – Jul 20253 nights
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