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  • Describing a type of sound art practice that extends the established radio drama and documentary form by the use of sonic abstractions. Perhaps first used by Pierre Schaeffer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer in his "Essai Radiophoniques" and subsequently taken up by the BBC to describe their famous sound workshop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop.
  • Describing sound effects created to accompany radio broadcasts as background music
  • obsolete Of or pertaining to the radiophone

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