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44 Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 3 2o17 Patricia Jäggi | Cosmopolitan Noises Programmes that included not only ‘clean’ studio recordings, but also a huge amount of ‘dirty’, noisy, or otherwise imperfect recordings received other, more atmospheric descriptions in my WPs. In the following example of my notes on the beginning of the above-mentioned feature programme about Swiss mountain sports, even the recording process became hearable (Tran- scribed words are in italic; the rest is in regular font) (Dickson 1975): Drumming, played by a keyboard Now the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation invites you to – a swinging piano, Don’t just stay here – percussive piano, do something – the Bass starts and a mouth organ, it reminds me of cowboys, The noises of wind on the microphone become louder, the music is fading out, So off we go! a quick look at the watch – it’s thirty-one minutes past one on a very sunny and bright Febru- ary afternoon squeking of snow, we are bobsledding from Preda to Bergün 5 kilometres welcome aboard! heeeyh blades squeaking, sliding over snow, kids that laugh, laugh at somebody? something bangs, slips and stops clothing that chafes on a microphone, breathing out and breathing in breathing out that was the first fall achha-laughing, nothing serious happened, such a fun. straight in the boards of the first bend cut we are in the studio And that was Chris Cooper at the start of the [...] In audio recording the sound of the equipment is usually made inaudible as far as possible. But here it belongs to the sporty, adventurous, and wintry atmosphere of the experiences presented in the feature. This is similar to today’s imperfect YouTube adventure videos, where crazy sports events are presented with wiggly and blurred filmography. That the producers left these noises in the feature can thus be explained as part of a strategy of authenticity, the authenticity of the imperfect sound or picture with which we are very familiar today. Besides reportages, another more general practice needs to be mentioned in the context of atmospheres in radio production. It can be described along the archival finding of bruitages.