Frippertronics

English

Etymology

From Fripp +‎ -tronics, named after its inventor Robert Fripp (1946–); coined by Joanna Walton, Fripp's poet girlfriend in the late 1970s.

Noun

Frippertronics (uncountable)

1. A system consisting of two reel-to-reel tape recorders linked to each other so that sounds can be mixed with a delay.
   • 2021, Dave Thompson, I Feel Love: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and How They Reinvented Music, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 141:

     It was, its maker mused, intended to be the first installment of a trilogy of records, each one dedicated to a different aspect of Frippertronics.