Josh Evert has released “Sound of Machines”, the first single from his forthcoming full length album Photogenic Memory.

Evert is an audio engineer, songwriter, composer, and producer who explores how sound behaves in the natural world. Photogenic Memory, is an album written in fragments across more than a decade, then assembled with hindsight. It is a record about “how memory distorts, reframes, and sometimes – beautifully – gets it wrong.”

A frequent resident of artist programs across North America, Evert has developed projects while in residence at The Arctic Circle (2022), 360 Xochi Quetzal in Mexico (2018), Denali National Park (2017), ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) (2016), and Homestead National Monument (2015).

The songs on Photogenic Memory trace back to residencies at Homestead National Monument and ACRE, to stretches of backpacking through Latin America, to the isolation of the pandemic, and to recent moments of personal loss.

In that way, “temporal sprawl” becomes “part of the album’s core idea.” The title “points to the ways we revise and aestheticize the past.” Photogenic Memory explores “how personal and collective histories are softened, distorted, and re-presented, whether in intimate relationships or in broader societal narratives.”

Sonically, the album “reflects the tension between fragmentation and cohesion. The record also reflects Evert’s collaborative ecosystem. It features contributions from artists including Mol Sullivan, Emma Witmer, Barry Paul Clark, Rob Weiss, D’Amato (Beauty Steps), Ryan Thomas Reeve, Will Hansen, Sean Behling, and Andy Kosanke.