”Sounds from the Gray Goo” started (SftGG 1.0) in a live electronic music class with percussionist Kevin Lewis. The initial setup for the series had an acoustic performer improvising within certain established parameters with a prerecorded and manipulated version of themselves controlled by the laptop artist.

Named after a potential apocalyptic scenario of nanorobots self-replicating to the point of drowning civilization in a “gray goo” because a careless programmer forgets to insert a kill switch, the large-scale vision for the series is to have several similar pieces for various instruments and the program flexibility to pick and choose among them to form a complete set. In other words, “Sounds from the Gray Goo” is to become a shiny black oil slick in the sea of electro-acoustic music. It would seem that the humans still hold dominion over the machines...for now.