schizophony
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[edit]Noun
[edit]schizophony (uncountable)
- Alternative form of schizophonia
- 1997, Heloísa de Araújo Duarte Valente, “Listening to the virtual past”, in Winfried Nöth, editor, Semiotics of the Media: State of the Art, Projects, and Perspectives[1], Mouten de Gruyter, page 611:
- It was the composer R. Murray Schaer who created the term schizophony to designate any sound emitted other than from its source.
- 2016, Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie, Repeater, page 23:
- For all their detail, or perhaps because of it, Lovecraft's descriptions do not allow the reader to synthesise the logorrheic schizophony of adjectives into a mental image, prompting Graham Harman to compare the effect of such passages with Cubism, a parallel reinforced by the invocation of “clusters of cubes and planes” in “Dreams in the Witch House”.