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        • sopr.;3(pic).3(ca).3(bcl.).3(cbsn)/4.1.2.1/timp.2perc.hp./str. (min. 14-12-10-8-6) When divisi: Divided at the desk.
        • Soprano
        • 12 min

        Programme Note

        Undark was a self-luminous, radium-based paint used by dial painters in the 1920s and who later became known as the 'Radium Girls.' To 'undark' a clock face was to make time visible in the pitch black, a feat achieved by mixing highly radioactive radium with phosphor. Because radium is a 'bone-seeker' - chemically similar to calcium - the bodies of the painters unknowingly absorbed the element into their very structure, permanently integrating the glowing paint into their skeletons. This radioactive legacy means that their bones remained luminous long after death - a ghostly, spectral glow that will persist for thousands of years.

        - Hugi Gudmundsson 

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