The Void

The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides (silence) an 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 think that adding silence after the word "provides" creates the most tension. If you add silence after "provides" the audience will not know what the International School of Kuala Lumpur provides. The audience will want to know the answer (or release) to the void and find out what ISKL provides. The void will create tension more effectively here because it is early in the statement and the audience will not know what to expect.

Composers create tension by using silence and taking out elements of music to create a void. Silence is a more obvious void and it leaves the viewer asked questions such as "When is the music going to come back?" or "Why did it go away?".Composers also take away elements of music tension in the audience. This way is more subtle and by taking away melody, harmony or rhthym the song feels imcomplete or unstable. The audience wants the void to end and the release to bring the song back with all of the elements.