Computational Audial Criticism is a methodological specification by Lee Sharks, deposited 12 January 2026, proposing a practice for reading recorded audio as literature and demonstrating it on the Acanthian Dove track.
The method works through five lenses: timbre hermeneutics, affective prosody, associative semantic drift, ritual structural mapping, and model-perceptual interpretation. The last is the distinctive one — reading the recording as a machine perceptual system would, and treating that reading as a legitimate critical position rather than an error to be corrected against human hearing.
The specification extends the archive's operative-philology programme into a substrate where its usual instruments do not reach. Its companion works are the Acanthian Dove itself at #293 and the visual schema at #294, so the dove exists across three registers — text, image specification, and audio criticism — which is the distributed-epic form applied to a single figure.