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four-channel

American  
[fawr-chan-l, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌtʃæn l, ˈfoʊr- /

adjective

  1. Audio. quadraphonic.


Etymology

Origin of four-channel

First recorded in 1965–70

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Wuorinen was 32 when he won the Pulitzer for “Time’s Encomium,” a four-channel work for synthesized sound that became the first electronic composition to earn the honor.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 12, 2020

Playing behind us was a four-channel video installation titled “American Gothic 2017,” featuring footage that she’d collected in New York last Halloween.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 7, 2017

The influence of Stockhausen’s “Kontakte” can be heard in the spatialized, four-channel electronic arrangement of “Adjacencies.”

From New York Times ● May 19, 2017

Members of the group joke that they recently graduated from '60s technology to '80s technology thanks to the employment of dated devices like an Edirol four-channel video mixer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2014

Audio enthusiasts have been jamming themselves into demonstration rooms in New York's Grand Central Station to hear the astonishingly lifelike effect created by four amplifiers, four loudspeakers and a four-track, four-channel tape recorder.

From Time Magazine Archive

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