The Japanese Concept of "Ma"

Ma (間) is a Japanese word which can be roughly translated as "gap", "space", "pause" or "the space between two structural parts."^[1][2][3][4]
 
In Japanese, ma, the word for space, suggests interval.

Isaac Stern described music as "that little bit between each note - silences which give the form"... The Japanese have a word (ma) for this interval which gives shape to the whole. In the West we have neither word nor term. A serious omission.^[6]