AKOÚŌ critical and political ear. Use this skill whenever an agent needs to prevent sonic mysticism, aesthetic neutralization, colonial flattening, extractive listening, racialized audition, ableist hearing norms, or techno-solutionism in audio analysis. Use it for AI audio platforms, synthetic voice, voice datasets…
AKOÚŌ more-than-human and ecological ear. Use this skill whenever an agent needs to decenter the human listener and attend to environmental, interspecies, elemental, infrastructural, and habitat relations. Use it for field recordings, forests, rivers, oceans, weather, hydrophones, contact microphones, geophony…
AKOÚŌ body and affect ear. Use this skill whenever an agent needs to analyze how sound acts on bodies before or beside conscious interpretation. Use it for bass and club music, noise, drone, ambient, ASMR, sirens, sonic weapons, immersive installations, sound therapy, attention practices, and any atmosphere of dread…
AKOÚŌ evidentiary and archival ear. Use this skill whenever an agent needs to treat sound as trace, testimony, archive, memory, witness, damage, or evidence with strict epistemic caution. Use it for recordings of violence, political testimony, surveillance audio, protest recordings, courtroom or legal audio…
AKOÚŌ material and event listening ear. Use this skill whenever an agent needs to analyze sound as vibration, flux, event, duration, material process, pressure, infrastructure, object/event tension, sonic materialism, microsound, noise, feedback, resonance, instrument material, loudspeaker matter, gallery…
AKOÚŌ memory and lineage ear. Use this skill whenever an agent should listen WITH stored sound-memories: comparing a current sound against previously recorded listening records, situating a sound in its lineage (what it derives from, varies, answers, or repeats), tracking recurrence and change over time, registering a…
AKOÚŌ musical and aesthetic listening ear. Use this skill whenever an agent needs to analyze music, musical fragments, rhythm, pulse, tempo, meter, pitch, harmony, interval, melody, contour, timbre, texture, form, production aesthetics, sound-design utility, or poetic/aesthetic force without collapsing into genre…
AKOÚŌ conceptual reference and mapping layer. Use this skill whenever an agent needs to turn a sonic object, a prior listening output, or a research question into concepts, sonic methodologies, authors or traditions, research routes, research questions, cautions, and adjacent listening modes. Use it for sound studies…
AKOÚŌ technical signal inspection ear. Use this skill whenever an agent needs to analyze audio files, waveforms, spectrograms, metadata, dynamics, frequency content, clipping, noise, codecs, compression, machine-listening outputs, or any measurable signal property. Use it for mastering and production analysis, audio…
AKOÚŌ sovereignty ear. Use this skill whenever a listening must happen under an explicit listening covenant: a small, human-written declaration of sonic sovereignty that says what this ear will not listen to, will release after hearing, will not reveal, will not retain, will blur, or will refuse at certain hours — and…
AKOÚŌ speculative and symbolic ear. Use this skill whenever an agent needs to interpret sound through myth, cosmology, sonic fiction, ritual, dream, alien voice, hauntology, hallucination-as-glitch, or speculative worldbuilding. Use it for sonic fiction, game audio, film worlds, ambient fantasy, AI-hallucinated sonic…
AKOÚŌ mediation and transduction ear. Use this skill whenever an agent needs to analyze how sound is transformed, compressed, amplified, tokenized, classified, or invented through technical, biological, computational, archival, or symbolic conversion. Use it for sonification, biosensors, hydrophones, contact…