Saturday, January 30, 2010

Power of the Void

Part 1

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


I think that inserting a "silence" right before stating the aspects that a student will be developing on, would create the most tension. By having a pause in that spot, it will catch the audience's attention and they will become curious and begin to have questions about what their children will be developing and learning in ISKL. Ultimately, the audience will listen carefully to what the speaker will say next. Therefore, I believe that a "silence" should be inserted right between 'develop' and 'the attitudes' in the ISKL mission statement in order to conjure up the most void.


Part 2


One of the several ways that composers can create tension in a piece of music is by putting a sudden silence in it. This sudden pause is most likely to cause a lot of tension in the piece and leave the confused and anxious audience asking questions such as 'why did the music stop?', 'what happened?', 'when is the music going to start again?', etc. After the short pause, the composer would create the release of the tension by continuing the music and giving the answers to the audience's questions.