Power of the VOID (band)

The Mission Statement:

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

I chose to put my silence/void there because it creates a lot of tension. You are just about to reveal what ISKL provides and all of a sudden there is a stop, this gets the listener asking questions in their minds. Then tension is released when all the questions are answered after the silence. This is an excellent way to create tension because you hold the information back and this catches the listeners attention and gets him thinking as well.

One of the easiest ways for a composer to create tension in their music is by putting a pause in the piece. Just before the pause, the composer could use crescendos and accents to create a bigger tension during the pause. This would allow the listener to ask questions and engage with the music and thus a void is created.