Connecting Music and Color: New Twists on a Venerable Idea
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. More than a century later, musician, teacher and synaesthesis Natalia Sidler invented the Farblichtflügel (pictured here), 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, which he worked on for Martin’s M-Series range of controllers, later 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.
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Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre announces the recipients of the THRIVE! Indigenous Theatre Grants. The four Indigenous theatres that will receive $10,000 each are American Indian Artists Inc. (AMERINDA), Natives of the Apocalypse, Red Eagle Soaring, and Spiderwoman Theater. The THRIVE! Uplifting Theatres of Color program is supported by the Doris Duke Foundation and the Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation, and developed and administered by TCG with an Advisory Circle of BIPOC theatre leaders. In addition to the Advisory Circle, seven arts and culture leaders from Native/Indigenous communities worked with TCG as advisors and nominators for the Indigenous Theatre Grants. THRIVE! provides unrestricted funds for U.S.-based Black, Indigenous, and Theatres of Color (BITOC*) who have all too often been outside the grantmaking sector’s funding opportunities.
