LA Phil presents a Lightscape Music Activation by featuring Celia Hollander and Photay
Celia Hollander
Celia Hollander is a Los Angeles based composer, producer and performer. Combining acoustic and digital elements, her work focuses on themes such as shaping time through composition, surrendering to improvisation, and music as a natural phenomenon of dynamic systems. Her discography features releases on Leaving Records, Longform Editions, Recital and Noumenal Loom and she has performed at venues including 2220 Arts & Archives (LA), Grace Cathedral (SF), Basilica Hudson (NY) and MOCA (LA). She is currently an educator at the Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts and she has created original scores and sound design for film, TV, dance performances and VR.
Photay
From the perspective of people who categorize music by genres and types, Evan Shornstein, better-known under his production moniker Photay, has created lots of different kinds of sounds over the past decade. If you’ve listened closely to Shornstein’s prodigious output, you know that separating and classifying the work is actually contrary to the energy of Photay music. That what on-the-surface may lazily appear as differences, is actually brought together by a shared sonic warmth, a hardware pastoralism at play. Whatever category he engages, Photay makes outdoor music under the spell of the elements, for the purpose of different human movements — some physical, some spiritual, some emotional, some philosophical.