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Audio does not need electricity. The first phonographs were purely mechanical. Also not all artificial sounds are audio. Many acoustic instruments are quite artificial (e.g. piano, saxophone, etc), yet do not generate audio. In a nutshell, audio is an simply an encoding of sound.
