Résumé

The computational studio has evolved from a tool into an infrastructure that pre-structures auditory thought. This article argues that commercially deployed AI enacts a regime of automated listening, a logistical governance that captures the vibrational remnant, spectralizes creativity into hauntological latent spaces, and disciplines sonic time via platform protocols. To analyze this tripartite governance, we introduce the Signal–Representation–Trajectory (SRT7) framework, a critical media-analytic model mapping the material, symbolic, and temporal dimensions of sonic control. Employing a practice-led methodology structured as a recursive circuit of speculative construction, forensic deconstruction, and relational framing, we demonstrate how meta-listening, a reflexive auditory praxis, serves as both diagnostic for this regime and core skill for its subversion. Through a materialist cartography of commercial AI tools and the construction of two counter-infrastructural software, hardware, and performative experiments, Atmospheric Hyperinstrument (2025) and Cyber Attack Sonifier: Glitch Ecology (2026), we show how meta-listening enables speculative interventions that redistribute agency and cultivate posthuman auditory sensibilities. The first experiment sonifies atmospheric data (CO2 , particulate matter) to bypass dataset hauntology; the second sonifies real-time cyberattack data to render audible the invisible violence of digital infrastructure. Synthesizing this analysis, we advance the AI-Chimera as a key concept for understanding hybrid creativity as an emergent property of configured SRT7 fields. The article concludes by positioning meta-listening as an essential political faculty for contesting sonic governance and advocating for the design of legible, contestable auditory infrastructures.