The Power of the Void

Part 1

The International School Of Kuala Lumpur provides an exceptional education (silence) that challenges each student to develop attitudes, skills, and understanding to become a highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen.

The ISKL's mission statement demonstrates the values of education, knowledge and understanding that the school posses. To build the tension in the mission statement I added a silence in between education, and that. The silence was placed to show where the reader should gain tension within their minds if being read to them. At this point of the statement, the statement starts to lure the reader into whats about to be justified. After the silence the statement goes into further explanations and specifics which would bemore interesting for the reader. The silence has the reader pause, wonder, and question what the school is really about, the answer is then revealed after the pause.

Part 2

Composers use tension and void to develop questions inside of the listeners mind. You can experience an immediate, or a hesitant answer from the void. Immediate answers can be a sudden silence, or a pause. A hesitant answer would be a change in dynamics and articulations. From staccatos, and pianos, to accent shorts and fortes. Sudden changes of sound makes the music sound unique. The void and tension that are made, makes the music interesting to listen to, it changes the music from an ordinary simple piece to an interesting, and exciting piece of music. The listener gets confused to whats happening when tension is used, to keep the listener tuned into the music. Tension and void is very powerful in all music, it gives a different impression of the music to the audience which keeps the audience attentive throughout the piece of music.

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