Light travels faster than sound. In fact, according to Albert Einstein, nothing travels faster than light. It's the ultimate speed indicator. The moonlight that lands on your cheek during a midnight stroll bounced off the lunar surface a mere 1.5 seconds ago. That's about the same amount of time it would take God to say, "Let there be light."

Light travels through the universe at approximately 186,000 miles per second. That's 880,000-times faster than the speed of sound. But don't let that discourage all you music fans out there on planet Earth. Boulder's hottest electronica collective, Motion For Alliance, will be rolling out their MFA: GMC project at Trilogy this Friday, pushing the speed of sound closer to the speed of light beat by beat with insane electronics, mad producers and futuristic effects that DJs 10 years ago could only pine for in their most evolved dreams. Led by Ryan Goodman (a.k.a. GMC), MFA: GMC is a perpetual experiment in lyricism, turntable-ism and live PA engaging with live instruments, such as flute, guitar and violin.

The show will start out down-tempo, but by the end of the night, your body will be shaking at a mind-enhancing 135 beats per minute — and that, I tell you, is the speed of music taking your ass to enlightenment.

Goodman, along with his partner DJ Technic 9, is the only permanent thing about GMC. The rest of the elements that make up the crew come and go. This constant evolution assures that the production is always 100 percent original, spontaneous and cutting edge. Goodman is as much an engineer as he is an emcee, and on certain occasions, he becomes a conductor, fusing incongruous pieces of music and personality together to produce a delicious underground dance-scene elixir.

"It is true live PA, at least as far as people understand it today," says Goodman. "But we take it further — it's the band scene going into the electronica format. It's more live dance music with live instruments.

"Live PA is kind of a confusing term," he explains. "Originally, it was people making music on the fly with hardware like synthesizers and drum machines." He notes that this was back in those Stone Age, pre-laptop days.

"Before, it was people on live devices. It didn't have anything to do with the computer. But in the last five to 10 years, it's moved to laptop sets. Instead of DJs with live records, you have DJs using things like Ableton Live — basically the platform from which you launch your music," he says, adding that this is loop-based, music-sequencing software — futuristic stuff that could never be done with turntables.

As a member of MFA, Goodman is used to pushing boundaries.

Motion For Alliance started up six years ago as a jam band focused on electronic yumminess, like drum and bass and loop samples, touring nationally and gaining props for their technical savvy and futuristic explorations. But over the years, MFA has evolved into three distinct projects: MFA: The Drop, MFA: Loop-Lab and MFA: GMC, all unified under the Alliance.

"We're trying to push three different crews as a cohesive element — something comparative to the Wu-Tang Clan of the electronica scene," says Goodman.

"We're really trying to think of it as a collective and put a lot of musicians and artists on, have a cohesive big-picture attitude, include people we think are cutting edge and not well known."

The effect is taking off. Loop-Lab is playing next month's Sonic Bloom festival, and will show off their light show at the Poudre River Reggae Fest at Mishawaka in July.

GMC has been busy working with cutting-edge producers like Dave Seied, DJ Panther and DJ Shaman. GMC will be joined at Trilogy with special guests Friends In Stereo — a trio that won Westword's best club DJ for 2006.

If you're wondering what you'll hear at the show, take your cue from what Goodman has been listening to lately.

"I'm a strange case," says Goodman. "I really have been listening to music on a level of not enjoying it, but of study. I went through a phase of every music you can think of — jazz, reggae, funk. At this point, I am really only listening to stuff that's on the cutting edge."

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