This has to be unintentional. (From the essay The New Image of Music on pg. 22 of Rochberg’s The Aesthetics of Survival):
“Finally, in the work of Varèse we discern the essential characteristics of a music which is fully and consciously spatial in its structure and imagery. Varèse’s first major works, composed in the 1920’s, reveal these characteristics in the full measure of maturity. Though it does not give up the motive, Varèse’s music relies heavily on densities…”
The title page of a seminal flute work by Varèse:
