radiophonic.
Describing sound effects created to accompany radio broadcasts as background music.
Meaning & usage
Describing sound effects created to accompany radio broadcasts as background music.
Describing a type of sound art practice that extends the established radio drama and documentary form by the use of sonic abstractions.
Of or pertaining to the radiophone.
Where this word comes from
* 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.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.