radiophonicsn.

1945 Modesto (Calif.) Bee 11 May 12/8 I am..interested in aviation. Where can I learn radiophonics so as to work with ground crews?

2000 A. G. Wilhelm Democracy in Digital Age 2 Today's predictions about electronic mail and the Internet echo the prophecies of early-twentieth-century Futurists who endowed global telegraphy and radiophonics, symbolized by Marconi's transatlantic telegraph, with the power to usher in a new era in governance.

1960 Times 5 Dec. 16/6 The Radiophonics Workshop provided suitably sinister noises.

1962 A. 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.

1976 Listener 21 Oct. 511/3 The tinkling celeste tune—now, alas, abandoned in favour of radiophonics—that used to introduce Listen with Mother.

1996 S. Emmerson & T. Wishart On Sonic Art (ed. 2) vii. 138 The appearance of science fiction drama permitted the development of less obvious landscape devices but radiophonics largely confined itself to simply exploiting the unusualness or novelty of a sound-object.

2001 Science 14 Dec. 2298/1 Unless you know that parrot fish really are noisy eaters, you might be deluded into thinking sounds accompanying footage of them scraping algae off a coral reef are simply more amusing ‘radiophonics’.