unknown artist 未知艺术家 by no artist, released 07 April 2026
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- d2. 1034'18'' - 1056'48''
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这是一张题为《未知艺术家》的专辑，它不是任何艺术家的作品，可能也不是出于任何人的意愿。这是一段发生在从中国南方到瑞士的物流旅程中的录音。
瑞士艺术家洛朗·居德尔发现和编辑了它。
是啊没有人创造了这张专辑。搞不好创造性被过誉了。搞不好创新和创造其实来自一种资本主义的欲望。那么我们该怎么说起我们发现某物，摸到它，凝视它，吞噬它，消化它和成为它这件事？
诶可能我们就只是发现它，摸它，看见它，听见它，吃掉它和变成它。
现在，请欣赏这180分钟（由未知世界的守护者宇波拓做的母带），或者18小时（来自那个数字录音机的原始声音）。我们来吃时间。
——yj
this is an album entitled "unknow artist" and by no artist's creating. perhaps not even by anyone's intention. it's a recording occured during a logistics journey from south China towards to Switzerland.
Swiss artist Laurent Güdel found it and edited it.
yes no one created this album. what if the creativity were overpraised? what if to be new or to be creative is actually driven by a desire of capitalism? so what should we say about our actions of finding something and touching it, dazing on it, devouring it, digesting it and becoming to it?
hemm, perhaps we just find it, touch it, see it, hear it, eat and become to it.
now pls enjoy the 180 minutes (mastered by the protector of the unknown, taku unami), or the 18 hours (original as what's in the digital recorder). let's eat time.
yj
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几年前，我为一个儿童项目买了四个便宜录音机。其中一个里面有录音，另几个是空的。我按了播放键，看见屏幕上显示“Unknown Artist”（未知艺术家）。在给它包上塑料膜、装进纸盒之前，有人按了录音键。现在还搞不清是故意的还是偶然碰到。录音在18小时11分50秒的地方停了，没电了。迷你SD储存卡还没有满。是32k赫兹/16比特的低保真度单声道录音。
录音机在运输设施之间旅行，我们能听到一个物流中心的声音环境，但也能听到运输影响到了录音本身。看来这个声音文件是来自中国的一间仓库，但具体位置没法确切认定。制造厂商是奥利（音译）科技，在深圳。
有时候这个录音机在动，带来很多振动和冲击，话筒在包装里摩擦，增益设定很高，限制器用一种很特别的方式压缩了信号。在别的时间，录音机没有在动，等着下一环的运输，录音会很清晰。这个录音机能到我手里简直是太小概率。能做这个录音的第一位听众是一件美妙的礼物，我很开心可以和别人分享。这份数字文件里的一切我都觉得有趣。声音、交谈、不解、语境、空间、长度、品质、声音，一切。这要是我做的录音，它就是我迄今为止最棒的作品。
——洛朗·居德尔（翻译：罗万象）
（subjam.org/blog 有洛朗的访谈。或者购买数字专辑然后下载 pdf 也可以）
I ordered four cheap digital recorders for a project with children a few years ago. One of them contained a recording and the three others were empty. When I pressed play on the recorder I could read "unknown artist" on the display. Someone pressed the REC button before placing the device in a thin plastic foil and in its cardboard box. It's still unclear if it was done on purpose or if it's an accident. The recording stopped 18 hours, 11 minutes and 50 seconds later, once the battery had run down. The mini SD card wasn't full. It's a 32 kHz, 16-bit, low fidelity mono recording.
As the device progresses on its path through shipping facilities we can listen to the sonic environment of a logistic center but also hear how the recording process itself is affected by the transport. The audio file seems to come from a warehouse in China, but the location of the recording site has not been precisely identified. Aoli Technology, the company that manufactures the devices, is based in Shenzhen.
Sometimes the recorder is moving so there's a lot of vibration and shock, the microphone is rubbing against the packaging, the gain was set quite high and the limiter compresses the signal in a very distinctive manner. At other times the recorder doesn't move and waits to be shipped further and the recording can be quite clear. The fact that this recorder arrived in my mailbox was so unlikely. To become the first listener of this piece of audio was a wonderful gift that I'm happy to share. Everything in this digital file interests me. The sound, the voices, the incomprehension, the context, the space, the length, the quality, the sound, everything. If I did this recording it would have been my best work by far.
Laurent Güdel
(check subjam.org/blog for laurent's interview. or download pdf after purchase the digital album)
