How chance can lead to great results: field recordings (opens in new tab)

Yesterday I read a Bandcamp article about 'the best field recordings on Bandcamp, April 2026'. I didn't know what would hit me. This album is attributed to No Artist because Laurent Güdel didn’t record it, he only discovered it. The Swiss sound artist ordered four digital recorders from Shenzhen, China and found that one of them already held 18 hours of recordings. Someone, it seems, had pressed “record” before shipping the machine, leaving it to run un...