VOID (2nd blog entry)

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

I feel that adding a silence after the word "provides", gets the reader(s) asking questions about, what it is that ISKL provides. When adding a silence after the word "develop" gives a little bit of tension to the audience (readers), which are usually parents, because the are always concerned about how their children are developing and what type of skills they're developing. By putting a silence after the word "become", i feel that i added tension to the Mission Statement, because the word "become" basically talks about future, and that is what all parents are concerned about, the children's future. And also by adding a silence after the word "socially", i feel like i messed with the structure of the Statement, because it is supposed to be positive, but by adding that silence, it could be anything either positive or negative.

One way a composer could create tension is by messing with the structure of the piece, and to create a release the composer could then after a certain amount of measures, go back to the melody of the piece and continue on as we did in the VOID concert.