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Title: Green Goo
Type: Sound
Year: 2005 - 2006
Genre: Ensemble
Instruments: Fl/Picc_Ob_Cl/B.Cl_Sax_Per_ P_Vl_Vla_Vc
Duration: 10m
Commission: Ensemble Espai Sonor / IVM
Premiere: 18 June 2006
Location: Mostra Sonora / Sueca
Performer: Ensemble Espai Sonor
Conductor: Voro García
Title: Opus 9.1
Exhibition: Group
Date: 13 February 2009
Location: Musée D'art Contemporain. Bordeaux
Title: Smash
Exhibition: Group
Date: 29 November 2008
Location: Art Center Da2. Salamanca
Title: Ensemble Espai Sonor
Exhibition: Group
Date: 18 June 2006
Location: Mostra Sonora. Sueca
Between 2004 and 2006 Roberto López worked in a group of conceptually based works in an emerging field of science called Nanoscience, which is the study of materials at the nanometer scale which goes from the microscale to the atomic-molecular scale. Science is interested in studying the nano to get to better understand the world around us and with nanotechnology to manipulate and control objects at that scale.
This was for Roberto López a starting point to create three works, Allegro Artificiale in 2004, Green Goo between 2005 and 2006 and Polvo Cósmico in 2006.
Green Goo is the name with which it is defined, in science fiction, the catastrophic vision that advances in nanotechnology could result in the existence of the human being, where tiny robots, half-cell, half-circuits are coupled to DNA molecules and therefore these would behave as "living machines", which supposedly would lead to these "nano-machines" to lose control and multiply ad infinitum using all living matter and minerals find in their path, causing the total extinction of human beings.
Roberto López focuses his work on this idea of the catastrophic versus the inevitable advance of our knowledge, the progress versus the ethical and moral questions of the individuals.
Green Goo was commissioned by the Valencian Institute of Music and was premiered by Ensemble Espai Sonor at the Mostra Sonora 2006.
