@article{ART003398381},
author={Nam Byongsoo},
title={How Does the Relational Auditory Gap Return? Nonlinear Sonic Variation and Online Reception across Thirty Films by Hong Sangsoo},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2026},
volume={79},
pages={97-139},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2026.79..97}
TY - JOUR
AU - Nam Byongsoo
TI - How Does the Relational Auditory Gap Return? Nonlinear Sonic Variation and Online Reception across Thirty Films by Hong Sangsoo
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2026
VL - 79
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 97
EP - 139
SN - 1598-0685
AB - Film silence is not simply a condition in which less is heard. It is a temporal relation that organizes the waiting between one sound and the next. Thirty selected films by Hong Sangsoo (1996–2026) were ordered chronologically and divided into three groups of ten. Gap ratio was computed from second-level dBFS as the proportion of seconds at least 25 dB below each film’s ninetieth-percentile level, and gap episodes required at least two consecutive seconds. Gap ratio, episode rate, mean and maximum duration, dynamic range, and Spearman audiovisual-change correspondence were treated as distinct measures. Kruskal–Wallis tests (50,000 permutations; Benjamini–Hochberg correction) found no significant differences between periods (q ≥ .228), despite contrasts within periods.
Close readings of the selected films emphasize recombinations of gap amount, fragmentation, duration, and audiovisual change rather than any single developmental trajectory. Of 342,310 rows of online data, 77,422 passed the filters, and 2,597 of these were directly attributed to individual film pages. Among the twenty-three films with at least twenty responses each, the formal measures showed no significant association with auditory, mnemonic, interrogative, or crossmodal language. This result cautions against equating form with verbal reception. The relational auditory gap thus offers a middle-range concept through which measurement and close reading can check one another’s excesses.
KW - Hong Sangsoo;film sound;relational auditory gap;audiovisual decoupling;nonlinear variation;online reception
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2026.79..97
ER -
Nam Byongsoo. (2026). How Does the Relational Auditory Gap Return? Nonlinear Sonic Variation and Online Reception across Thirty Films by Hong Sangsoo. Cross-Cultural Studies, 79, 97-139.
Nam Byongsoo. 2026, "How Does the Relational Auditory Gap Return? Nonlinear Sonic Variation and Online Reception across Thirty Films by Hong Sangsoo", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.79, pp.97-139. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2026.79..97
Nam Byongsoo "How Does the Relational Auditory Gap Return? Nonlinear Sonic Variation and Online Reception across Thirty Films by Hong Sangsoo" Cross-Cultural Studies 79 pp.97-139 (2026) : 97.
Nam Byongsoo. How Does the Relational Auditory Gap Return? Nonlinear Sonic Variation and Online Reception across Thirty Films by Hong Sangsoo. 2026; 79 97-139. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2026.79..97
Nam Byongsoo. "How Does the Relational Auditory Gap Return? Nonlinear Sonic Variation and Online Reception across Thirty Films by Hong Sangsoo" Cross-Cultural Studies 79(2026) : 97-139.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2026.79..97
Nam Byongsoo. How Does the Relational Auditory Gap Return? Nonlinear Sonic Variation and Online Reception across Thirty Films by Hong Sangsoo. Cross-Cultural Studies, 79, 97-139. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2026.79..97
Nam Byongsoo. How Does the Relational Auditory Gap Return? Nonlinear Sonic Variation and Online Reception across Thirty Films by Hong Sangsoo. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2026; 79 97-139. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2026.79..97
Nam Byongsoo. How Does the Relational Auditory Gap Return? Nonlinear Sonic Variation and Online Reception across Thirty Films by Hong Sangsoo. 2026; 79 97-139. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2026.79..97
Nam Byongsoo. "How Does the Relational Auditory Gap Return? Nonlinear Sonic Variation and Online Reception across Thirty Films by Hong Sangsoo" Cross-Cultural Studies 79(2026) : 97-139.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2026.79..97
