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radiophonic

radiophonic adjective: describing sound effects created to accompany radio broadcasts as background music.

Adjective

radiophonic (not comparable)

  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. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to the radiophone.

Origin of radiophonic

* 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.

Words formed from radiophonic

Questions about radiophonic

What does radiophonic mean?
Radiophonic means describing sound effects created to accompany radio broadcasts as background music.
What part of speech is radiophonic?
Radiophonic is an adjective.

Words near radiophonic in the dictionary

  1. radiophiles
  2. radiophilic
  3. radiophobia
  4. radiophone
  5. radiophones
  6. radiophonic
  7. radiophonically
  8. radiophonics
  9. radiophonist
  10. radiophonists
  11. radiophony

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