The word "sonic" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to sound that can be heard beyond the range of the human ear, or to describe something that occurs rapidly. Example sentence: The sonic boom made the windows of the house shake.
She's also one of the few pop stars who work just as well without all the sonic bells and whistles.
The key thing about the fidgety, sonic assault that is Skrillex's Dirty Vibe isn't the head-spinning bass drop that stands in for the chorus, or the fact that Big Bang heart-throb G-Dragon seems to be wearing lollipops as hair bands, but the way it teases us with one of 2015's prospective megastars.
I'm of an age to call someone roughly other like Giggs "pop", but he more or less inhabits some highly specified area that flickers in and around hip-hop and gangsta rap and the knotty domestic deviation, grime, that added certain ragged home truths and electronically quarried sonic grit to grabby, waggish hip-hop alertness.
Bop English: Constant Bop The White Denim frontman chucks a mix of sonic influences at the wall on this eclectic debut.
4. Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer Eoin Colfer's sonic grenade generates a different kind of explosion: no smoke, no flames, just a solid wall of sound that blows out every window and eardrum within a 10 metre radius of the restaurant where it explodes.
A performance of Stravisnky's Concerto in D added exciting dissonance to the evening's sonic palette.
In summary: Get ready for another tour around the sonic cathedrals this summer.
Featuring vocalist Kyan, it's got all the sonic flourishes you'd expect from a Madeon song – chopped-up and filtered vocals, big spacious synth riffs, a huge drop – but comes enveloped in a sky-scraping chorus that should help it find a nice home on the Radio 1 playlist.
The resulting years, however, have seen them gradually shake free of their own self-imposed sonic straitjacket.
To confirm our suspicions, we called Matteah up at home in New York to discuss noise and silence, and how her music – featuring low sonic rumbles and abstract effects, her plaintive vocals and guests such as Devendra Banhart – was suggestive either of residual pain after a squall of emotion, or of impending thunder.
Hmm … it must have been the pre-SST sonic boom.
