It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means (electroacoustic music). Pure electronic instruments depend entirely on circuitry-based sound generation, for...
Electronic sound design and its applications in djing. Authors abstract. for DISSERTATION for awarding the educational and scientific degree.

Furthermore, visual representations like the one above help us fully grasp the concept of Electronic Sound Design.
Audio effects, or audio signal processing, refers to the electronic manipulation of audio signals. Or, in other words, doing something electronically to a sound that changes its characteristics...

...but the extra level of expressive control is, arguably, even more potent as a tool within electronic sound design as demonstrated by Rolis own Equator2, Strobe2 and Cypher2 synths...