multiphonic

Having the character of multiphonics: sounding two or more pitches at the same time

Adjective

  1. Having the character of multiphonics: sounding two or more pitches at the same time
    • He prefaced his next song with a row of hard, multiphonic squawks, sounding like a truck horn. - 2009 January 22, Nate Chinen, “A Single Jazz Band, by Way of Two Trios”, in New York Times:

Origin

From multi- + -phonic. Contrasting with monophonic (“of an instrument, producing one note at a time”).

Related

polyphonic