English Explanatory Dictionary

radiophonic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Describing sound effects created to accompany radio broadcasts as background music.
  2. Describing a type of sound art practice that extends the established radio drama and documentary form by the use of sonic abstractions.
  3. Of or pertaining to the radiophone.

Word forms

radiophonic

Etymology

* radio- + -phonic * (sound art practice): Perhaps first used by Pierre Schaeffer in his Essai Radiophoniques and subsequently taken up by the BBC to describe their famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Derived words

radiophonically
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