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Futuristic Archaism
Music and extinct cultures in Varèse’s Ecuatorial and Mâche’s Manuel de Résurrection
Andrew Infanti wrote this paper for a series of meetings with great Chinese-American composer Chou Wen Chung entitled “Culture Confluence” directed by Chinary Ung.
It explores the concept of cultural extinction and presents the poetic and technical strategies of two composers (Edgard Varèse, Ecuatorial, and François-Bernard Mâche, Manuel de résurrection) to “resurrect” dead cultures.