When Wassily Kandinsky first heard a performance of Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin in 1896, he was moved by the powerful imagery the music evoked in his mind. The experience had a profound effect on his art. More than a century later, musician, teacher and synaesthesis Natalia Sidler invented the Farblichtflügel, which also combined music with color and to create a new perceptual experience. That, in turn, served as the inspiration for Peter Decker’s DyLOS, or Dynamic Light Operating System, who later worked for Martin on the company’s Maxedia media server and M-Series range of controllers, which were acquired by Elation before the company launched Obsidian Control Systems in 2018. About 18 months later, with Decker’s help, Elation launched DyLOS as a revolutionary new component of the ONYX lighting control platform. The cue-based system brought an innovative toolset of media composition, effects, content, and text generators, along with a large variety of parameter manipulation, right into the core of any ONYX system.
From “Technology Insight” by Larry Beck, PLSN, Dec. 2023, page 14
