It is a chorus of nine voices, two of each voice form a chorus with eighteen performers, it is a melody that is formed with the vowels of the names of extinct plants and the rhythm of a pre-Hispanic musical piece.

As this is a self-referential work, it looks for the extinct cultures within the history of my crossbreeding, it starts from the individual to the collective and questions the extinction of the pre-Hispanic cultures and with them their melodies, designs and cosmovisions: it questions what the word “extinction” implies, which is the termination or end of a culture that disappears little by little due to the superimposition of a dominant culture.

The dominant civilizing model causes one culture to extinguish another, for this reason, I intend with the work to free itself in today’s globalized world to find its autonomy and to put a stop to cultural colonization and the imposition of a dominant way of life. Identity is important because we all need to have elements of rootedness, with the need to differentiate ourselves, to seek a solidity of who we are.

Process: It consists of composition through a system of musical interpretation of the names of extinct plants with rhythms of a pre-Hispanic melody called Yupaichishca. In the composition, I designate to the alphabet a musical note in the piano that goes from a low note to a high note according to my vocal range, and I take the vowels of the names of the extinct plants to designate the notes with which I am going to sing to finally put the pre-Hispanic rhythm.