KineticSound was a company formed by James Stephenson, Jr., amateur organ builder and president of a high-tech firm in Lockport, Illinois, called Kinetic Systems. He and his cohorts, Sandy Lamantia, Brian Swindells, Ed Dyer, Mike Skubic, and Rick Arial, designed and built the digital synthesizer called the Prism. However, they were unable to successfully market it to the music industry.