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radiophonic, a.|ˌreɪdɪəʊˈfɒnɪk| [Cf. prec. and -phonic.] 1. Belonging to radiophony.
1881Sci. Amer. 5 Feb., Radiophonic notes, such is the new term, have been obtained by M. Mercadier from ordinary gas lamps. 1881Nature XXIII. 367 The radiophonic sounds result from a direct action of radiations upon the receiving substances. 2. Pertaining to or designating synthetic sound produced by electronic means and the use of tape recorders, usually for use in broadcasting in conjunction with conventional material.
1958Times 24 May 10/2 B.B.C.'s Radiophonic Workshop. A ‘workshop’ for producing synthetic sounds, partly by electronic oscillators and partly by trickery with conventional sounds recorded on tape has been set up by the B.B.C. at their Maida Vale studios. 1958Observer 22 June 14/3 He [sc. Patrick Magee] must be the only actor who can sound as if he's talking through a radiophonic filter. Ibid. 6 July 14/2 Those radiophonic plays where an old woman's memories or a young man's nightmares are made the slender excuse for the latest in ghost-train noises. 1960BBC Handbk. 67 Special effects..created..for the occasion by ‘radiophonic’ devices. 1961Listener 16 Nov. 834/1 Michael Bakewell employed radiophonic effects to communicate the variant senses of time experienced by the normal and the mentally ill characters in this double bill. 1972Ibid. 21 Dec. 872/3 Not a Goon Show script, but..one of Michael Mason's radiophonic workshop larks. Hence radioˈphonicist, an exponent of radiophonic sound; radioˈphonics n. pl., the production and use of radiophonic sound; the sounds themselves; radiˈophonist = radiophonicist above.
1958Listener 28 Aug. 319/3 Our local radiophonicists and ‘concrete’ music men have too often seized upon noise in the higher octaves to drive home dramatic nails that would have seemed excruciating even to Jael. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio xii. 203 Radiophonics does not in general attempt to assert itself as an art form in its own right; it is always an element in a larger picture. 1963F. C. Brooker (title) Radiophonics in the B.B.C. 1976Listener 21 Oct. 511/3 The tinkling celeste tune—now, alas, abandoned in favour of radiophonics—that used to introduce Listen with Mother. 1977Listener 18 Aug. 217/2 What was crushing to the fond memory was the way the poverty had affected the radiophonics, too. 1977Times 3 Sept. 10/3 Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy..on Radio 4 certainly provided a field day for the radiophonists. |